OCHIN and Community Care Cooperative (C3) have joined forces to offer a novel Accountable Care Organization (ACO) solution that will strengthen care quality and continuity for about 250,000 ...

CMMI has spent more than a decade learning which organizations consistently deliver high-value care. The next step is to let ...

With the advent of the ACO programs 15 years ago — Medicare Shared Savings Program was launched as part of the implementation ...

1. While ACOs have been promoted as part of the Healthcare Reform Act for Medicare patients, and pilot programs are being established, the real movement with ACOs seems to be with commercial payors at ...

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 ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

As the post-acute care industry continues transitioning towards a value-based care system, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should start to consider participating in an Accountable Care Organization ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

It’s clear that healthcare providers are increasingly recognizing and accepting that value-based payment is here to stay. The tremendous growth in Accountable Care Organization (ACO) arrangements is a ...