Open to low-revenue accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the CMS Innovation Center will test the five-year voluntary new model focused on primary care delivery starting in 2025.
The goals of the ACO PC Flex Model are to:
Expand access to high-quality, accountable care...Arizona News
For the first time ever, all ACOs operating in Arizona earned shared savings as participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in 2022.
Nationally, the MSSP saved Medicare $1.8 billion in 2022 compared to spending targets for the year. This marks the sixth consecutive year the program has generated overall savings and...
More than a dozen pages cover what you need to know about Advanced Payment Models (APMs) including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs) and Value-based Networks (VBNs) competing for Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) and beneficiaries in Arizona. Taking risk for the quality and cost of care is making...
According to the study, MA costs between 2 and 5.5 percent more than traditional Medicare in comparison to the MSSP program, which saved Medicare 1 and 2 percent in 2016; together MA and the MSSP covered nearly 20 million Medicare beneficiaries.
According to the report, MA savings is lost when payments are boosted for star rating...National News
In the new "Pathways to Success" model, ACOs will have to be ready to take financial risk sooner.
The final policy reduces the amount of time new ACOs can stay in the program without taking risk from six to two years and just one year for existing one-sided ACOs. The agency made one exception to its fast track initiative: new,...Arizona News
Year-over-year (YOY), SHP doubled its earned shared savings and is the only Arizona MSSP ACO to receive a check from CMS for 2016 performance.
With a steady beneficiary pool of around 19,000 YOY, Scottsdale Health Partners generated savings of nearly $19 million, earned nearly $9 million in shared savings and received an overall...
In this white paper, The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) turns its focus on the challenges facing healthcare organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) program and solutions that better support the program's sustainability.
NAACOS incorporates its findings from a recent survey of MSSP ACOs and it...