Wellvana announced today its support of 190,000 new Medicare beneficiaries in 2026 through its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO partners. This growth reflects increasing demand from ...

CMS is pursuing empiric fee-schedule accuracy in original Medicare (eg, validating procedure time assumptions) while rapidly expanding MSSP and CMMI pathways to move beyond unmanaged fee-for-service.

Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs. The Centers for Medicare and ...

Long-term care operators are again calling on regulators to give them more control in accountable care organizations, a move they say could save Medicare $2 billion or more per year.

Founding leadership applies operational, clinical, and compliance knowledge from prior value-based care models to build ...

Accountable care organizations in the ACO Reach program can claim credit for saving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hundreds of millions of dollars. ACO Reach participants racked up ...

Assisted living can be an important partner in value-based care, saving the government $390 million annually, according to one estimate, but CMS must develop a new ACO model focused on such settings ...

CMS announces remaining provisional awardees in stealth mode. If you weren't looking closely, you might have missed CMS' announcement of the 110 participants that have been provisionally accepted into ...

Only a couple of years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for healthcare experts to call accountable care organizations “unicorns.” Despite the excitement and discussion around the model, few people had seen one ...