Forming an accountable care organization must not be a hasty decision. Before committing to partnerships within a parochial healthcare network, all the players must know the stakes, the options ...

The Trump administration has revealed what comes next when the ACO REACH model concludes at the end of 2026. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation unveiled the Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design, ...

Use of voluntary alignment attribution by Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) participants was limited. The authors highlight the reasons and describe organizational use cases via a ...

Many rural providers, like critical access hospitals, rely on cost-based reimbursement or flat, encounter-based payments like ...

October 10, 2024 – For several years, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working towards a goal it set in 2021 to ...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician groups and integrated delivery systems to improve the quality and efficiency of care for patients in ...

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 ...

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

Wilmington Health, which has a high-performing accountable care organization, is committed to helping other healthcare providers to perform well in value-based care. Medical groups and health systems ...

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 ...

2013 represented another year of growth for accountable care organizations, but it also brought a few setbacks to the model’s progression. Here is a look back at events that affected Medicare and ...

For likely the last time, state health care regulators at the Green Mountain Care Board on Wednesday approved the annual budget for OneCare Vermont, the accountable care organization that has been the ...