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• The Perils and Payoffs of Alternative Payment Models for Community Health Centers
• Getting Real About Health Equity
• Growth in Health Information Exchange With ACO Market Penetration
• How Pharmacists Can Help Address Social Determinants of Health

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• CMS Officials Make Major Statement on Health Equity, Referencing Role of Value-Based Care
• Waves of Pandemic Incite Soaring Demand for Population Health Technology and Analytics Solutions, Black Book 2022 User Survey
• 5 Behavioral Health Trends for 2022
• Medicare Direct Contracting Demo Garners Critics and Defenders

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• Improving Risk Prediction for Chronic Disease Management
• How Payers Are Linking Community-Based And Value-Based Care To Strengthen Outcomes And Equity
• What CMMI’s director told us about mandatory payment models, ACOs, and more
• Favorite Quotes of the Year: Health Equity Edition

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• The Year in Review: A Year of Twists and Turns for APMs
• Data Drives Value-Based Healthcare
• Improved Payments for Social Care Can Promote Health Equity
• Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Help Address SDOH, Health Equity

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• 2022 forecast: 7 predictions for what lies ahead for health equity
• The Time Is Right to Revisit Value-Based Care
• Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022
• The State of Value-Based Reimbursement, Financial Risk in Healthcare

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• Why value-based administration is key to value-based care
• LAN survey: 40% of health payments tied to alternative payment models in 2020
• Power and Participation: How Community Health Centers Address the Determinants of the Social Determinants of Health
• Value-Based Care Driving Efforts to Improve Patient Access

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• 4 Key Use Cases for Patient Data Access, Patient Portals
• Accountable Care Organization & Direct Contracting Entity Survey
• FLAACOS 2021 VBC PANEL SURVEY: A Summary of ACOExhibitHall.com Advisory Board Responses
• How a pandemic shines a brighter light on the need for SDoH innovation

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• Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance
• Benchmark Report Sneak Peek: 2022 Post-Acute ACO Partnerships in Focus
• Choosing the Appropriate Provider or Practice Group for Referrals
• Health Systems Set Sights on Risk-Based Payment in Medicare Advantage

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• 62% of Consumers Unfamiliar with Value-Based Care, Study Finds
• Building a Value-Based Pharmacy Performance Program
• Small primary care practices that received training in quality measures to enhance care improved patient outcomes
• 5 ways health plans are addressing health equity

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• The 2022 CMS PFS And QPP Final Rule: A Warning Shot To Provider Holdouts Of Value-Based APMs
• New Kid On The Block: Remote Therapeutic Monitoring To Make Its Way Into CMS 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
• Health Equity and Health Disparities: The Role of Health IT and the Need to Standardize Data Collection
• Normalized Data: What It Is and Why You Need It

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• Medicare, Medicaid innovation center lays out ambitious agenda for next decade
• Steve Klasko on diverging from the ‘natural order of things’ to move health care forward
• Addressing Social Determinants of Health Closes Health Disparities

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• New ACO Playbook: How To Supercharge Your ACO
• Improving The Health Of Rural Americans
• BMA: Medicare Advantage Offers Lower Costs, Better Benefits Than FFS

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• Downside Risk Pays Off: 4 Best Practices for High ACO Performance
• Analysis: How COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Vary Across Different Communities
• Who is Generation C and how will healthcare adapt to meet their expectations?
• Population Health and Data Analytics Strategies for Value-Based Care

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• ACOs Angling for a Bigger Role in Health Equity
• Healthcare at the Crossroads: Value-Based Care and Interoperability
• Acknowledging Economic Stability as a Primary Social Determinant of Health
• Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2: Building On The ACO Model

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• New ACO Playbook: Seven Keys To Expanding ACO Savings—And Market Share
• What is Utilization Management?
• CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties
• Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game

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• The State of Payer, CBO Social Determinants of Health Contracting
• Special Report: Analyzing 2020 ACO Results and Factors for Success
• SDOH Strategies All Provider Organizations Should be Adopting Now
• HHS aims to use value-based care payment models to lower drug prices

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• Efficiency One Key to Success in Value-Based Care Engagement
• Coordination Without Consolidation? Options for ACOs
• Gottlieb: COVID-19’s Lasting Effects on Healthcare Delivery
• Healthcare leaders share lessons learned addressing social determinants of health

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• Developing value-based virtual partnerships: What health plans should know
• CMS Releases 2020 MSSP ACO Results, Marking Fourth Consecutive Year of Net Savings to Medicare
• Gottlieb: COVID-19’s Lasting Effects on Healthcare Delivery
• Healthcare leaders share lessons learned addressing social determinants of health

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• Patient Centeredness Transfers to Data, Too
• New ACO Playbook: 3 Strategies To Tackle Hidden Costs Of Specialty Care
• Paying it Forward: How Payers Can Accelerate the Transition to Value-based Care
• 10 issues every healthcare leader should be thinking about

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• Cost Savings Aren’t The Only Objective For ACOs: Growth Matters, Too
• 5 Ways Value-based Care Organizations Use Healthcare Data to Improve Outcomes & Attract Patients
• What ACOs should do now that CMS won’t extend the Next Gen ACO model through 2022
• Study: Private consultancies can influence hospital participation in CMS bundled payments model

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• A New Elephant is in the ACO Waiting Room: It is Following the Money
• Closing the Gaps & Improving Care: Why Patient Centric Data Matters
• Moneyball for Healthcare: Data is the Key
• New ACO Playbook: Three Ultimate ACO Strategies To Keep Physician Practices Onboard

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• Value-Based Care Assessment: The First Step to Value-Based Care
• The role of CINs in securing Value-Based Contracts
• How to Add, Pay Community-Based Organizations in Value-based Care Contracts
• Study: Private consultancies can influence hospital participation in CMS bundled payments model

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• The Fundamentals of Medicare Advantage Star Rating Methodology
• Using Healthcare Analytics to Understand & Optimize Physician Referrals at the Point of Care
• ACO Participation May Keep SNFs ‘In the Game’
• Use Value-Based Payment To Resolve The Debate About Telehealth Payment Parity

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• Shared Savings ACOs get a year off from electronic clinical quality measures
• Five Important Health Care Trends That Consumers Should Track
• Increase in Medicare Advantage Activity to Address Social Determinants of Health, But Barriers Still Remain
• The Missing Ingredient in Your Hospital’s Social Determinants Initiative

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• Medicare eligibility erases many healthcare disparities in US
• 3 Strategies To Push ACO Savings Beyond Coordination of Care Limits
• Feeding two birds with one seed: payment reform, telehealth, & health equity
• How to choose an ACO partner

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• The 2022 CMS PFS And QPP Proposed Rule: 7 Things To Know
• Top 3 Steps to Develop a High Performing Network (HPN)
• The pandemic fallout to come, and the role of digital SDOH
• The (SGR) Fix Is In: How MACRA Short-Circuited Incentives For Joining Two-Sided Models

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• New ACO Playbook: 3 Approaches To Scale Up Data Sufficiency For Value-Based Care
• Healthcare Is Not Equal for All – We Need Population Health 4.0
• CMS Needs to Rethink How Medicare Assesses Quality
• Using advanced analytics to look at the ‘whole person’ for better value-based care delivery

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• Educational Attainment Emerges as SDOH Predicting Health Disparities
• Keys to Building a Successful RPM Program
• Value-based care gains traction during COVID-19
• Medicare ACOs Facing Multiple Changes and Challenges

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• Integrating Data Systems To Support Value-Based Contracts
• Rep. Bustos: Social Determinants of Health Key Legislative Goal
• Addressing social determinants of health to attract and retain talent
• Number of Accountable Care Organizations Declined During COVID-19

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• New ACO Playbook: How ACOs Can Transform Clinical Care For Diabetes
• The Interoperability Effect: Driving Value-Based Care and Financial Health
• Social Isolation Key SDOH Impacting Health, Mortality Outcomes
• Network Leakage: The Cause & Effect

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• MedPAC: Overhaul MA payments and streamline CMMI models
• 4 SDOH Driving Health Disparities in Patient Portal Use
• The expanding role of specialists in value-based care
• Nutrition’s Critical Role in Value-Based Care

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• Building a social determinants of health strategy: data is the key
• A Decade of Value-Based Payment: Lessons Learned And Implications For The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation, Part 1
• Lawmakers call for CMMI to be more transparent and accountable as model review continues
• Why should payers and employers care about community care networks?

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• Value-Based Contracting 101: Preparing, Negotiating, and Succeeding
• Community health worker support reduces 30-day readmission among high-risk ACO patients
• The Real Registry Advantage For ACOs Reporting Via APP: 5 Myths Debunked
• Working 9-to-3: Addressing the social determinants of aging

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• New ACO Playbook: To Show Standout Performance, ACOs Must Rethink Quality
• How value-based care can support the growing mental and behavioral health need
• CMS won’t extend the Next Generation ACO Model through 2022
• Time To Set Aside The Term ‘Low-Value Care’—Focus On Achieving High-Value Care For All

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• ABCs of VBC: CMS Value-Based Initiatives – A Current Review and Future Perspective
• The Move to Value-Based Care Takes a Pandemic Pause
• Why PCPs Should Focus on Coding and Documentation in Value-Based Care Programs
• Using Novel Data Sources To Inform Care Management During And After The Pandemic

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• New ACO Playbook: Three Touchstones For ACO Viability
• Profiling ACO Success: What Drives High Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program?
• How social determinants of health can enable value-based care
• AMA: Most physicians now work outside of private practice

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• New ACO Playbook: Can Coordination Of Care Save Enough Money To Save ACOs?
• In Providers’ Words: What’s Working and What’s Not in Value-Based Care Today
• Knowing SDOH is Good Medicine
• How to Avoid Falling From Grace: Strategies for MA Plans to Sustain & Improve Performance

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• Value-based care at ‘critical juncture,’ new CMMI chief says
• It doesn’t have to be ‘either/or’ with value-based payment
• NAACOS Recognizes Three ACOs for Care Improvement Efforts
• On the Road to High-Value Healthcare in the U.S.: Are We There Yet?

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• Why ACOs Need A New Playbook
• Whither the ACO?
• Industry Groups Seek Next Gen Extension, Full-Risk ACO Options
• The Key to SDOH: Health literacy

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• Population Health Still At Odds With Fee-For-Service
• Provider Perceptions of Pharmacists in Primary Care–Based Accountable Care Organizations
• Reinventing Community-Based Healthcare Delivery in a Value-Based Landscape
• To Sustain The Value Movement, Make Next Generation ACOs A Permanent Option

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• 5 Value-Based Behavioral Health Strategies For ACOs And Medical Group Models
• The shift to value-based care has accelerated in the wake of the pandemic
• CMS Delays CHART Model’s ACO Transformation Track
• MedPAC calls for fewer pay models, cutting Medicare Advantage spending

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• A Roadmap for Value-Based Payment in 2030
• With Competing Payment Models On Hold, What’s The Future For ACOs?
• CMS delays ACO Track of the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model
• NAACOS Calls For Renewed HHS Focus, Funding on Value-Based Care

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• NAACOS asks HHS Secretary Becerra to grow Medicare ACO programs
• CMS payment models that are under review, delayed
• CMS Starts Primary Care First Value-Based Payment Model Second Wave

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• Rewarding ACOs that Manage Complex Patients
• Why Workforce Development for Value-Based Care is a Vital Issue to Address
• Providers and payers face intense negotiations after the pandemic

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• Biden Administration Pauses Key Value-Based Reimbursement Models
• Challenges and Strategies Behind Patient Engagement
• Making the emergency department utilization, SDOH connection
• MedPAC likely to recommend CMS simplify alternative payment models

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• Low-Value Care Spending Slows as Medicare Pushes Value-Based Care
• Achieving Success in Medicare’s Highest-Risk ACO Program: One ACO’s
• Best Practices in Value-based Care
• The digital divide becomes a new social determinant of health

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• Addressing Social Determinants Lowered ED Utilization in Medicare
• How to bring specialists into the ACO fold: 9 strategies for success
• Coordinated payment policies could speed transition to value, experts say
• 7 New Value-Based Health Care Directions You’ll See In 2021

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• Next Gen ACOs: Savers or Spenders?
• CMS Regulation Impacts on MSSP and QPP: The Top 10 Changes ACOs Need to Know
• Physician Practices Trail Hospitals in Value-Based Care Readiness
• CMMI’s geographic direct contracting model needs an overhaul, experts say

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• Top Social Determinants of Health Barring Patient Care Access
• What Will CMS Do Under the Biden Administration?
• Why Health Equity Will Be Measured In Value Based Health Care

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• ACO Participation Hits New Low as Biden Administration Takes Over
• Skilled Nursing Facilities Lack Enhanced Patient Data Sharing
• Billing, antitrust exemption changes upend negotiations between insurers and providers
• NAACOS Warns Policymakers Over Slowing ACO Participation in the MSSP Program

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• Next Generation ACOs Saved Medicare $558M in 2019
• CMS Issues Guidance for Medicaid and CHIP Programs Regarding Social Determinants of Health
• ACO participation reaches new low as advocates press Biden for major changes
• Re-thinking Alternative Care Models and Value-based Care

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• Most Next Gen ACOs achieved bonuses in 2019
• 7 New Value-Based Health Care Directions You’ll See In 2021
• Telehealth flexibilities continue and ACOs are held harmless under public health emergency extension

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• New physicians short on opportunities to practice value-based care
• What percent of physicians participated in ACOs? – 9 stats
• Atul Gawande: To fix our broken healthcare system, start with primary care

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• ACOs Fear Direct Contracting Options Stray Too Far From Providers
• ACOs press for halt to Geographic Direct Contracting model due to complexity concerns
• The Year That Was: In 2020, Tumult for ACOs, and a Year-End Holiday Gift Under the Tree

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• CMS unveils highly anticipated geographic direct-contracting model
• Is the CMS Geographic Direct Contracting Model Right For You?
• Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
• A Prayer and a Plea for our Nation to Realize the Severity of COVID-19, with Dr. Brent Staton

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• CMS unveils highly anticipated geographic direct-contracting model
• Is the CMS Geographic Direct Contracting Model Right For You?
• Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
• A Prayer and a Plea for our Nation to Realize the Severity of COVID-19, with Dr. Brent Staton

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• As Value-Based Care And Telehealth Rise, Patient Experience Measurement Desperately Needs An Update For The Digital Age
• CMS doubles down on value-based care
• Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
• The 2021 QPP Final Rule: A Warning Bell For ACOs And A Wake-Up Call For MIPS Participants

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• CMS Announces Changes to Medicare MD Payment Related to Telehealth, ACOs
• A New Elephant is in the ACO Waiting Room: It is Following the Money
• HHS’s Efforts to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices and Transition to Value-Based Care – Part 1: CMS and OIG Issue a Series of Final Rules
• Five Strategies To Help ACOs And Independent Specialists Create Common Ground On Data Sharing

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• ACOs, Population-Based APMs Most Effective at Lowering Costs
• How PCPs can leverage better coding to succeed in value-based care
• Evaluation Of Medicare Alternative Payment Models: What The Data Show
• Health Affairs Blog: Health Policy Researchers See Far More Complexity in MSSP Than Meets the Eye

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• How ACOs In Rural And Underserved Areas Responded To Medicare’s ACO Investment Model
• The 4th Realm of Health: Social Determinants of Health – The Undiagnosed Condition
• Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems

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• What Will a Biden or Trump Victory Mean for Healthcare?
• ACO Survey Shows Why Congress Should Address Value-based Payment Incentives
• Any Way the Wind Blows: The Future of Heath Care Payment Reform
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces 51 direct contracting entities

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• The COVID-19 Pandemic Can Help Us Understand Low-Value Health Care
• 2020 Shared Savings Benchmarks – Does your Organization Meet the Mark?
• Value-Based Care Requires a Balance of Telehealth, In-Person Visits
• CMS finalizes insurer transparency rule

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• Telehealth Expansion in Medicare: Policy Changes, Recent Trends in Adoption, and Future Impact
• The Medicare Shared Savings Program In 2019: Positive Results During Major Transitions And On The Eve Of A Pandemic
• How Top Accountable Care Organizations Save Year After Year
• MGMA 2020: Transitioning to value-based care

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• The True ROI of Population Health Management
• How Accountable Care Organizations Can Survive the Next Healthcare Crisis
• Seven Key Analytics To Direct Your ACO’s Specialty Strategies For Risk
• Direct contracting favors new entrants over existing ACOs

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• Value-based Care After COVID-19: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know
• ACOs Announcing Millions in Shared Savings
• Establishing A Value-Based ‘New Normal’ For Telehealth
• Citing COVID-19, providers push back on CMS payment rule rate cuts, telehealth rollback in 2021

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• AMA and others ask CMS not to finalize proposed ACO quality changes
• ACOs still face barriers to achieving profitability, care goals
• Value as a business differentiator: 6 execs on what makes their ACOs high-performing
• Preparing Providers for Full MACRA Implementation in 2022

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• Most ACOs Worried About Rising Advanced APM Thresholds Next Year
• Accountable Care Organizations Shifting Gears in 2020 (survey)
• CMS and NAACOS: The Battle of the Narratives Continues-During a Key Moment for ACOs
• Social Determinants of Health: The Unaddressed Variable Accounting for 80% of Health Outcomes

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• 2019 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO Performance: Lower Costs And Promising Results Under ‘Pathways To Success’
• CMS Savings Reaffirms the Need for Primary Care Support
• NAACOs urges Congress to address qualifying thresholds in value-based care models
• How Medicare Successes Inform Medicaid Value-Based Care Progress

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• Three Fixes For ACOs’ Physician Engagement Strategies
• Doctors affiliated with health systems have much higher MIPS scores, JAMA study finds
• Why Primary Care Should Run the Healthcare System
• Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts Value-Based Contracts

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• The CHART Model: What it means for ACOs and Health Communities in 2020
• 3 Keys to Engage Specialists in Value-Based Care
• Straight Talk For Providers Adopting Capitation: Don’t Fly Blind Without The Right Data
• The QPP Proposed Rule 2021: What’s in Store for MIPS and ACOs

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• How an ACO, FQHC Model Leveraged Social Determinants of Health
• Pre-visit Planning: Uncovering Stones for ACO Financial Viability Amidst COVID-19
• 2019 Financial Settlement and Quality Report Delivered

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• NAACOS-Commissioned Report: ACOs and APMs Could Save CMS $270 Million Over Next Decade
• The Math of ACOs
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• How ACOs Can Control Costs With Physician Help, In 3 Steps. Really.
• CMMI Announces New Model to Support Rural Value Transformation
• Population health programs don’t always work – 3 lessons learned from health insurer execs
• How To Ensure COVID-19 Doesn’t Delay Value-Based Care

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• Effective Care Management by Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations
• CMS Drops Proposed Rule Impacting Quality Payment Program, MSSP ACOs
• Some Alternative Payment Models Are Improving Behavioral Health
• MEDICARE Home-Based Medical Care Can Reduce Hospitalizations and Lower Costs – But It’s Still Underutilized

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• New bill seeks to boost participation in advanced payment models, ACOs via several reforms
• Next Gen ACOs Doing Complex Care Management Are Reducing Hospitalizations, Costs
• Telehealth made up almost half of all Medicare beneficiaries’ primary care use in April
• COVID-19, Direct Contracting, & ACOs: Where Are We Headed?

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• Critical Considerations For Condition-Based Alternative Payment Models: A Multi-stakeholder Perspective
• Episodes Are More Than Payment Models: They’re Key To Improving Care
• Leapfrog Group: Employers rank Cigna highest, UnitedHealthcare lowest on drive for value
• Seema Verma: Early Impact Of CMS Expansion Of Medicare Telehealth During COVID-19

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• AMGA Calls for Medicare Shared Savings Program Changes Amid COVID-19
• COVID-19: A Forcing Function for Value Based Care?
• Payer Fuses Value-Based Care, Support Payments for Small Practices
• Family doctor, employer groups join forces to replace fee-for-service

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• Standalone ACOs Saved More Than Hybrid Medical Home Models
• Nearly 70% of ACOs Will Soon Offer Some Type of Home Visits
• Payers Continue to Expand Value-Based Contracting Despite COVID-19
• Telemedicine in the Time of Coronavirus

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• ACOs Describe How Population Health Expertise Is Paying Off During Pandemic
• How To Start Redressing Racial Bias And Reducing Health Care Inequities
• As Hospitals Lose $50B Per Month, Home Health Providers Consider New Acquisition Opportunities

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• ACOs Can Grow Value-Based Payment in Medicare, But Changes Needed
• The Advisory Board’s Kerns on the Longer-Term Prospects of Risk-Based Payment Models
• MaineHealth ACO execs show how they used predictive analytics to reduce ED utilization
• This Next Gen ACO relies on data investments to help track COVID-19 hot spots. Here’s how

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• MedPAC June Report Highlights Fix to Ensure ACOs Can’t Game System
• Implicit Bias and Racial Disparities of Care: Recognizing and Addressing the Role of Implicit Bias in Vulnerable Patient Care
• ACOs Lean More on Physician Assistants, Non-Physician Providers
• COVID-19 Spotlights 3 Payer Telehealth Expansion Challenges

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• Is Telehealth Bridging Or Widening The Health Care Gap? We Need To Find Out.
• CMS Extends Next Generation ACO Model, Offers APM Flexibilities
• A Fortunate ACO Coincidence
• Berwick Challenges ACOs to Take on Inequity, Racism

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• CMS extends Next Generation ACO model, offers direct contracting details
• Report: The Future of ACOs After COVID-19
• Seema Verma: New CMS Payment Model Flexibilities For COVID-19
• Million Hearts: Tracking Cardiovascular Risk to Improve Population Heart Health

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• More Physician Groups Lead Accountable Care Organizations
• One Foot In the Boat, One On the Shore: A Scenario Suddenly Made More Complex
• Telehealth Expansion During Coronavirus Pandemic Changing Physician-Patient Relationship
• ACOs seek info on Next Gen, Direct Contracting models amid COVID-19 pandemic

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• ACOs seek clarity on future of payment models
• Accountable Care Organizations Are Increasingly Led by Physician Groups Rather Than Hospital Systems
• Can PCPs Survive COVID-19? Only If Fee-for-Service Goes
• ACOs ask Trump admin for more help to cope with coronavirus

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• ACO Participation Did Not Lower Care Access for Vulnerable Patients
• Size Is Now A Problem That Large Hospitals And Health Systems Must Solve
• Innovative Ways that ACOs can Increase Affordable Housing in Their Communities
• Emergency CMS rule provides optimism for alternative payment models

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• Hospital and provider groups cheer new CMS flexibility on telehealth, capacity and ACO losses
• CMS Delivers Key Win for ACOs in Emergency Rule
• The Interim ACO Rule Explained: A Pause, Not A Reprieve
• CMS removes COVID-19 inpatient treatment from ACO performance calculations

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• ‘The genie’s out of the bottle on this one’: Seema Verma hints at the future of telehealth for CMS beneficiaries
• Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO
• Sleep Apnea Care in the Era of COVID-19
• Infrastructure, Staffing and Culture Work Together to Navigate Risk

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• More ACOs turn to telehealth to combat COVID-19 financial crisis
• Maintaining Progress Toward Accountable Care And Payment Reform During A Pandemic, Part 2: Immediate Issues And Short-Term Actions
• Impact of COVID-19 on Accountable Care Organizations Short-Term and Long-Term
• Stretched To The Limit By COVID-19, Will Providers Get Relief From Medicare Value-Based Programs?

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• MedPAC Urges CMS to Drop Pandemic-Skewed 2020 ACO Benchmarks
• Maintaining Progress Toward Accountable Care And Payment Reform During A Pandemic, Part 1: Utilization And Financial Impact
• Survey Predicts Massive Defection from MSSP; NAACOS Calls for Hold-Harmless on COVID-19-Related Losses
• Could coronavirus derail the decades-long shift to value-based care?

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• Accountable Care And Population Health In Time Of Pandemic
• CMS sends $51B in advance payments to hospitals
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• The Transition from Reimagining to Recreating Health Care Is Now

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• COVID-19 Health Policy Updates
• What providers need to know about CMS’ recent changes to Medicare quality payment programs
• Bridging the EHR Divide. Helping ACOs and CINs Overcome Communication Challenges
• Benchmarking ACO Network Utilization: Lessons Learned in Network Design and Performance

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• Analysis: COVID-19 could raise Medicare spending by as much as $115B over next year
• Change Needed to Make ONC Interoperability Rule Work for ACOs
• Virtual is the New Normal For ACOs and Healthcare
• Postacute Care Preparedness for COVID-19: Thinking Ahead

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• ACOs vulnerable to penalties, no savings in light of coronavirus
• A Letter to ACOs: An Update on NAACOS’s advocacy on COVID-19
• ACOs seek flexibility from CMS to mitigate losses due to coronavirus
• ACOs Concerned Coronavirus to Impact Shared Savings, Losses

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• CMS releases Key Dates for Direct Contracting Payment Models for Direct Contracting Payment Models
• MedPAC: There’s Room For Specialists in ACOs, But No Savings
• “HIMSS20 Has Been Canceled, but We Haven’t!”
• 25% of Provider Organization Revenues Tied To Value-Based Payments

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• ACO Path To Viability: Direct Contracting May Be The Opportunity
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• Implementing Value-Based Reimbursement in Behavioral Healthcare
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• Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model
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• NAACOS wants more details, changes to direct contracting payments
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• CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
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• Want to Increase Docs’ ACO Participation? Start With an ‘Upside Only’ Arrangement
• Are ACOs Successful in Integrating Social Services with Medical Care?

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• CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
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• CMS Loosens Restrictions on Telehealth for Certain Shared-Risk ACOs
• Researchers: Significant Return on Investment Found in Use of Community Health Workers

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• 37% of ACOs are taking on downside risk
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• 95% of post-acute care providers will be subject to new payment models in 2020, 2021, analysis shows
• Can Hospitals Still Lead Health Care Under Risk?

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• Number Of ACOs Taking Downside Risk Doubles Under ‘Pathways To Success’
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• Industry Voices-Building it right from the beginning: Measuring the impact of SDOH interventions

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• Program meant to curb repeat hospital stays fails big test
• Can Value-Based Payment Improve Health Care and Lower Costs?
• How Are ACOs Prioritizing Palliative Care And Other Serious Illness Strategies?
• CMS releases MIPS results for 2018: 5 things to know

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• In response to providers, CMS offers further specifics about direct contracting
• NAACOS launches new task force to help doctors with new CMS payment models
• Population health management: The key to value-based care

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• MA value-based plan enrollment tripling for 2020
• Patient Engagement Technology Looms Large for 2020 Health Trends
• The Year in Policy and Payment: A Look at One Critical Alternative Payment Issue

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• More payers jump into value-based Medicare Advantage plans in 2020
• Bottom Line: Can Consumers Survive Value-Based Health Care?
• 3 Strategies to Transform Care Management
• Value-Based Healthcare Network For Self-Insured Employers Launches In Florida

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• ACOs Have Saved Medicare $3.53B From 2013 to 2017, New Analysis Finds
• 90% of Value-Based Payments in Commercial Sector Based on FFS
• Healthcare must look inward to better address social determinants of health, Berwick says
• 5 Ways Technology Will Enable Value-Based Care in 2020 and Beyond

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• ACOs saved Medicare $755M from 2013 to 2017, new analysis finds
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• Industry Leaders Support Proposed Changes to ACO Benchmarking
• Digital health – Getting beyond the smoke and mirrors

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• FLAACOS 2019 Panel: Q&A Session About Five ACO Value-Based Strategies
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• 3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care

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• Leveraging Advanced Practice Practitioners for Team-Based Care
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• MedPAC throws cold water on glowing ACO reports
• Accountable care organizations results prove the future is now for value-based care

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• Overcoming Obstacles to Shared Savings in a Multi-EHR ACO Consortium
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• How to deliver value-based care and eliminate waste – Frontline insights from Baylor Scott & White Health & Northeast Georgia Health System

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• ASC involvement in ACO, joint venture models: 3 findings
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• Implementing a Comprehensive Upstream Strategy for ACEs and Trauma
• CMS Headlines: ACOs Generate Savings, but Is It Enough?

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• Physician-Led Accountable Care Organizations Outperform Hospital-Led Counterparts
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• 3 Reforms Aim to Reduce Administrative Burden of Value-Based Care
• The Hedge Bet For Risk Is Patient Experience

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• How Physicians Can Navigate To Get Better Value From Specialty Services
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• Trends in Value-Based Care
• Advocate Aurora Invests in People, Infrastructure for ACO Success

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• 2018 Shared Savings Results: The ACO Marathon, NOT a Sprint
• Preparing Your ACO For Downside Risk Success
• Annual Wellness Visits Set the Stage for ACO Success
• HHS’ massive Stark overhaul prompts optimism for value-based care models

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• CMS saved $739 million last year from Medicare ACOs
• 10 ACOs with the most shared savings in 2018
• How Are Hospitals Supposed to Reduce Readmissions? | Part II
• Interest In ‘Pathways To Success’ Grows: 2018 ACO Results Show Trends Supporting Program Redesign Continue

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• 54% of Physicians Participate in an Accountable Care Organization
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• How Are Hospitals Supposed to Reduce Readmissions? | Part I

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• ACO Participation Dipped After Pathways to Success, NAACOS Finds
• Breakthroughs in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
• Providers still waiting for 2017 advanced APM bonuses
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• ACO Participation Numbers Worth Watching As CMS Changes Take Root
• Calls mount for CMS to address problem of patient overlap across payment models
• Racial Health Disparities Emerge in Emergency Department Access
• Study: MSSP results proving ACOs are ‘an ideal model’ for delivery

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• CMS delays requirement for ACOs to notify beneficiaries
• Using Data to Improve the Patient Experience and the Bottom Line
• Will “Value” Help Consumers Choose?
• Solutions for ACOs to help Physicians Achieve the Triple Aim – ACOExhibitHall Survey Results

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• 7 strategies ACOs use for better patient outcomes and lower costs
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• Researchers Find More Accurate Model for Estimating Patient Costs

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• Strategies which help ACOs to improve patient outcomes
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• 3 Ways Care Coordination Saves Your Healthcare Organization Money

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• How successful ACOs treat their physicians
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• Medical Groups Call for Value-Based Care Reforms to Reduce Burden
• Lowered Spending Among Providers Participating in ACOs in Rural, Underserved Areas

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• 3 Steps for ACOs to Build Effective Post-Acute Care Networks
• Specialists Help Drive Skilled Nursing Usage Cuts in ACOs
• Artificial Intelligence in Population Health
• The Importance Of Primary Care-And Of Measuring It

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• ACOs with 2-sided risk can cut cost, improve quality, study finds
• 7 Strategies for ACO Success
• Balancing Specialty and Primary Care Lowers Costs for ACOs
• A MIPS Rewrite Is Certain: CMS Proposed Rule For The 2020 Quality Payment Program

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• Can ACOs Survive the Complicated New Landscape in Medicare Risk?
• Choppy Waters Ahead: Are CMS Officials Unnecessarily Alienating ACO Leaders Now?
• Successful Medicare ACOs engage physicians, patients, federal report finds
• Factors ACOs Must Consider as They Transition from CMS’s Medicare Shared Savings Program to Pathways to Success

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• More ACOs Taking Accountability Under MSSP Through ‘Pathways To Success’
• Medicare Shared Savings Program sees decline in new ACOs
• One Key to ACO Spending Reductions? More Specialists.
• ACO Investment Model Reduced CMS Expenditures by $48M

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• ACOs may need stronger financial incentives, like downside risk, to succeed
• Case Study: Success in a Hospital-Integrated Accountable Care Organization
• Study finds 33% of ACOs took on major risk in 2018 as new program starts
• Medicare Advantage And The Future Of Value-Based Care

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• 3 Strategies to Help Accountable Care Organizations Boost Savings
• 3 details for healthcare providers to know before taking on risk
• Healthcare’s Next Revolution: Finding Success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
• Medicare’s Direct Provider Contracting: To Primary Care And Beyond

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• What Makes an Alternative Payment Model Successful
• Healthcare’s Next Revolution: Finding Success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
• Why SDOH buzz is becoming a roar among health plans
• Federal effort to align quality measures won’t be easy

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• Are ACOs living up to their promise?
• MEDPAC: Inconsistent ACO Participants Have Much Higher Costs
• Health systems eye commercial payers for more downside risk
• Small healthcare providers: The challenge of quality measure reporting

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• Value-based care: What’s working, what isn’t and where to go from here
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• ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey And Case Studies Depict Current Challenges And Future Opportunities
• Health Policy Researchers’ Analysis: CMS Needs to Rethink ACO Incentives Under MSSP

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• Accountable Care Organizations Lower Costs Compared to HMOs, PPOs
• Caravan Health, Texas Hospital Association Partner to Launch Statewide ACO
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• Patients want providers to do more about their unmet social needs

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• Provider Groups Want to Make Next Generation ACOs Permanent
• Redefined Performance Measurement Drives Value-Based Care Success
• Pop health platform helps one ACO save $1M in treating disability patients
• Role of Innovation in Addressing Social Determinants of Health

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• Separate EHRs pose care-coordination challenge for ACOs, OIG finds
• 7 Winning Strategies for CMS’s MSSP Pathways to Success- Part II
• Can Provider Risk Cure High Medical Costs?
• Healthcare in 21 years will be driven by ‘radically interoperable data’

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• 7 Winning Strategies for CMS’s MSSP Pathways to Success
• ACOs stick with Medicare program when they get bonuses
• Employers Leaning Toward High-Performance Networks, ACOs to Improve Care Access
• APG, NAACOS, and Premier Unite to Ask HHS, CMS to Permanentize the Next Gen ACO Program

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• ACOs less likely to leave Medicare program after 3rd year
• How Will New Primary Care Models Affect Providers In VBHC?
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• Payers, Providers Agree: The Shift to Value will Require Transformative Change

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• Strategies for Success: Insights From Top Performing ACOs
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• CMS’ new payment models aim to ease the transition to risk
• CMS’ Verma: New Value-Based Care Models are Coming-and Some Will Be Mandatory

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