In a recent blog post, Jonathan Pearce, principal of Singletrack Analytics, questioned the financial advantages of health systems’ participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program as accountable ...

Nearly two weeks after applications were due for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ latest accountable care ...

Most ACO models involve a provider taking financial responsibility for their patient population's total cost of care and addressing key quality measures over the course of a year. The Medicare Shared ...

On August 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released financial and quality performance data for its accountable care organization (ACO) programs, including results from the ...

Note: Pratyusha Katikaneni and Carmen Diaz also contributed to this post. They are both research assistants at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution. In their post, ...

For the first time, CMS has published individual financial and performance results for the original 32 Pioneer accountable care organizations, which provide insight into why 12 of the ACOs exited the ...

CMS released financial results from the first 2 years of the Pioneer ACO program. The program is down to 19 accountable care organizations from the original 32 that started the program, and the ...

A new analysis found that 37% of accountable care organizations take on downside financial risk, as the Trump administration’s push for providers take on more risk makes an impact. The consulting firm ...

A new report issued by the Commonwealth Fund (CWF) finds that, contrary to previous assumptions, dominant market share, employed physicians and financial strength are not essential requirements for a ...

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a new proposed rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

One-quarter of accountable care organizations provide home-based care programs, but financial risks are holding others back, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care ...

Accountable care organizations that take on financial risk are more likely to be bigger, horizontally and vertically integrated, to have been exposed to other types of payment reform and have more ACO ...