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2022

VBC Newsstand 5/20/2022
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VBC Newsstand 4/29/2022
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VBC Newsstand 2/25/2022
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VBC Newsstand 1/28/2022
VBC Newsstand 1/21/2022
VBC Newsstand 1/14/2022
VBC Newsstand 1/7/2022
VBC Newsstand 5/20/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care creating a new era of interoperability
  • Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design
  • Medicare Shared Savings Program: Celebrating 10 Years and Looking Forward to the Future
  • ACO REACH And Advancing Equity Through Value-Based Payment, Part 1
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VBC Newsstand 5/13/2022

Featured Articles:

  • For ACOs, the Question Is: To eCQM or Not to eCQM?
  • Technology’s critical role in successful value-based care
  • How to Use Healthcare Analytics to Improve Care Access
  • Using Data to Quantify a Key Pandemic SDOH: Social Isolation
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/6/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Breaking Down Common CMS Value-Based Payment Programs
  • Experts Discuss Driving Health Equity, Increasing CMS, ACO Alignment
  • CMS targets reforms to benchmarks to kick-start flat ACO participation
  • CMS Officials Announce Major New Strategies Around ACOs
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VBC Newsstand 4/29/2022

Featured Articles:

  • What’s driving the transition to value-based care?
  • Fact Checking the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model
  • Future of Value-Based Care, Role of Alternative Payment Models
  • Key Advantages of Medicare Advantage Plans Versus FFS Medicare
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/22/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Here’s what primary care will look like in the future
  • Population Health vs. Public Health: How They Differ and the Tech Behind Them
  • Hospices Gauge How Quality Counts in ACO REACH
  • Patients struggle with unmet basic needs: Medical providers can help
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/15/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Everybody’s Talking About Value-Based Health Care. Here’s What They’re Not Saying.
  • Nurses are Burned Out. Can Quality Measures Help?
  • Implement Pharmacy Performance Measures for Value-Based Care
  • Legal and payer changes focus on addressing social determinants of health
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VBC Newsstand 4/8/2022

Featured Articles:

  • What Comes Next In Prioritizing Equity In Payment? The ACO REACH Model
  • Bipartisan House bill aims to boost value-based purchasing drug agreements in Medicaid
  • Podcast: Analyzing the New ACO REACH Model, with Rick Goddard and Joe Satorius
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VBC Newsstand 4/1/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Rural ACOs Work to Overcome Challenges in Medicare Payment
  • AHA launches Health Equity Roadmap, an interactive program for members to build out their equity efforts
  • How to Evaluate Physician Performance Using Appropriateness
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VBC Newsstand 3/25/2022

Featured Articles:

  • A Typology For Health Equity Measures
  • Sneak Peek into the Post-Acute Care Industry Trend Report
  • HIMSS 2022: Health equity, transformation, Michael Phelps, Scott Pelley, and other highlights
  • Most doctors have patients affected by social drivers but feel ill-equipped to address them, survey finds
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VBC Newsstand 3/18/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Contracting: At an Inflection Point?
  • Why Understanding Risk Scoring in the ACO REACH Model is Critical For Success
  • Small Practice Participation and Performance in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations
  • Hospital Populations Do Not Reflect Communities, Imperil Health Equity
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VBC Newsstand 3/11/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Accountable Care Model: Weathering the Storm and Growing Stronger
  • Key Components of a Post-Acute Growth Engine
  • Care coordination: What’s needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?
  • Top Effective Social Determinants of Health Interventions
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VBC Newsstand 3/4/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS changing direct contracting to an ACO gets mixed reaction
  • Remote Patient Monitoring Best Practices: Tips For Setting Your RPM Program Up For Success
  • How ACO REACH Compares to Direct Contracting
  • How The Principles Of Environmental Justice Can Improve Health Equity
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VBC Newsstand 2/25/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023
  • Seven Key Strategies For Health Systems And ACOs To Attract And Engage Consumers
  • What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
  • Provider Collaboration Needed to Drive Patient Experience, ACO Success
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VBC Newsstand 2/18/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Healthcare Groups Plead with HHS’ Becerra to Retain Direct Contracting Model
  • Trends in Characteristics of Fee-For-Service Medicare and Medicare Advantage Enrollees
  • Podcast: NAACOS Health Policy Update and the Rumored Cancellation of the GPDC Model, with Allison Brennan
  • Do Patient Navigators Close Racial Disparities in Primary Care Access?
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/11/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Social Determinants Of Health In The Age Of Digital Healthcare
  • Healthcare Associations Call on Congress to Spur APM Adoption
  • What’s Ahead in 2022
  • Volume vs. value: Physician compensation models slow to adapt
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VBC Newsstand 2/4/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Will Consumers Derail Your Value-Based Care Success?
  • Raising the Bar: Using Primary Care Practice Standards to Advance Health Equity in Medicaid
  • Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Accountable Care Organizations
  • Along with rate increase for MA plans, CMS pitches closer look at social determinants of health
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VBC Newsstand 1/28/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Case For ACOs: Why Payment Reform Remains Necessary
  • How to Use Longitudinal Patient Data to Create a Better Continuum of Care
  • Which digital health sectors led VC investment in 2021
  • Examining the value-based care approach: How improved data models and analysis can remedy inequities
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/21/2022

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/14/2022

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/7/2022

Featured Articles:

  • 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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2021

ACO Newsstand 12/31/2021
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ACO Newsstand 10/1/2021
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ACO Newsstand 7/16/2021
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ACO Newsstand 1/1/2021
ACO Newsstand 12/31/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/24/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/17/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/10/2021
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ACO Newsstand 12/3/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/5/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/29/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 10/22/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/15/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/8/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 10/1/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/24/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/17/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 9/10/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 9/3/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/27/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/20/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/13/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/6/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/30/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/23/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/16/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/9/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/2/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/25/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/18/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/11/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/4/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/28/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/21/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/14/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/7/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/30/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/23/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/16/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/9/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/2/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 3/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/5/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/29/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/22/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/15/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 1/8/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 1/1/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 1/3/2020
ACO Newsstand 12/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/11/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/4/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/20/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/13/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/6/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/30/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/23/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/16/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/9/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/2/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/25/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/11/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/4/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/28/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/21/2020

Featured Articles:

  • NAACOS-Commissioned Report: ACOs and APMs Could Save CMS $270 Million Over Next Decade
  • The Math of ACOs
  • Lessons from a MassHealth ACO that saved $12.2M
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/14/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/7/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/31/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/26/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/19/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/12/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/5/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/29/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/22/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/15/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/8/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/1/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ‘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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Accountable Care And Population Health In Time Of Pandemic
  • CMS sends $51B in advance payments to hospitals
  • Telehealth plays big role in coronavirus cure | Commentary
  • The Transition from Reimagining to Recreating Health Care Is Now
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/27/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/20/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/13/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/6/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACO Path To Viability: Direct Contracting May Be The Opportunity
  • Alternative Payment Models Save, But Drop-Out Rate Still a Concern
  • Implementing Value-Based Reimbursement in Behavioral Healthcare
  • Humana launches value-based program aimed at the social determinants of health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/28/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model
  • The Impact of ED Optimization on ACOs
  • NAACOS wants more details, changes to direct contracting payments
  • Out-of-Network Primary Care Linked to Higher ACO Costs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/21/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
  • ACOs Lack Data On Patient Social Needs, Community Partners
  • Want to Increase Docs’ ACO Participation? Start With an ‘Upside Only’ Arrangement
  • Are ACOs Successful in Integrating Social Services with Medical Care?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/14/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
  • ACOs Lack Data On Patient Social Needs, Community Partners
  • CMS Loosens Restrictions on Telehealth for Certain Shared-Risk ACOs
  • Researchers: Significant Return on Investment Found in Use of Community Health Workers
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/7/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Warn Future of Next Gen Program Appears Bleak
  • Upstream With A Small Paddle: How ACOs Are Working Against The Current To Meet Patients’ Social Needs
  • How ACOs are Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Practice
  • AMGA: Advancing Value-Based Care Hinges on Claims Data Access
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/31/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Is Medicare Direct Contracting the right fit for your organization?
  • 5 Population Health Management Challenges Facing ACOs
  • Patient Engagement Key in Consumer-Centric Healthcare Models
  • What’s Behind the Huge Analytics Disconnect in Healthcare? Evidence of a Lag in Leveraging Data Is Mounting
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 37% of ACOs are taking on downside risk
  • Is volume the key to value-based care success?
  • 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?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Number Of ACOs Taking Downside Risk Doubles Under ‘Pathways To Success’
  • Performance Year 2020 Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations
  • Next Gen ACOs aren’t lowering hospital spending: 5 things to know
  • Industry Voices-Building it right from the beginning: Measuring the impact of SDOH interventions
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue

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ACO Newsstand 5/10/2019
ACO Newsstand 5/3/2019
ACO Newsstand 12/27/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/20/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/13/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/6/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs saved Medicare $755M from 2013 to 2017, new analysis finds
  • Value-Based Care Leads the Way to Lower Costs and Better Quality
  • Industry Leaders Support Proposed Changes to ACO Benchmarking
  • Digital health – Getting beyond the smoke and mirrors
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/29/2019

Featured Articles:

  • FLAACOS 2019 Panel: Q&A Session About Five ACO Value-Based Strategies
  • MSSP Participation Following Recent Rule Changes: What Does It Tell Us?
  • 3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/22/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Leveraging Advanced Practice Practitioners for Team-Based Care
  • New CHIME Report Indicates Slow Movement to Alternative Payment Models
  • MedPAC throws cold water on glowing ACO reports
  • Accountable care organizations results prove the future is now for value-based care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/15/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Shared Savings in a Multi-EHR ACO Consortium
  • Treat ACOs And MA Plans Equally? By All Means
  • How To Manage Your Health Care Costs – Beyond Just Coverage Costs And Gaps
  • How to deliver value-based care and eliminate waste – Frontline insights from Baylor Scott & White Health & Northeast Georgia Health System
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/8/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ASC involvement in ACO, joint venture models: 3 findings
  • ACOs linked to consolidation of physician practices, study finds
  • Implementing a Comprehensive Upstream Strategy for ACEs and Trauma
  • CMS Headlines: ACOs Generate Savings, but Is It Enough?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/24/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Physician-Led Accountable Care Organizations Outperform Hospital-Led Counterparts
  • Spread of ACOs And Value-Based Payment Models In 2019: Gauging the Impact of Pathways to Success
  • 3 Reforms Aim to Reduce Administrative Burden of Value-Based Care
  • The Hedge Bet For Risk Is Patient Experience
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/18/2019

Featured Articles:

  • How Physicians Can Navigate To Get Better Value From Specialty Services
  • Physician-led ACOs generated almost 7 times more savings than hospital-led ACOs: Avalere
  • Trends in Value-Based Care
  • Advocate Aurora Invests in People, Infrastructure for ACO Success
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/11/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/4/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/27/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 54% of Physicians Participate in an Accountable Care Organization
  • Artificial Intelligence – The Doctor Will See You Now
  • Doctors and patients tired of insurance hassles, Verma says
  • How Are Hospitals Supposed to Reduce Readmissions? | Part I
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/20/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ACO Participation Dipped After Pathways to Success, NAACOS Finds
  • Breakthroughs in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
  • Providers still waiting for 2017 advanced APM bonuses
  • Accountable Care Organization Review Recognizes the Value of Pharmacists
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/13/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/6/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/30/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 7 strategies ACOs use for better patient outcomes and lower costs
  • Out-of-Network Patient Migration
  • Overcoming Transition of Care Management (TCM) Visit Challenges
  • Researchers Find More Accurate Model for Estimating Patient Costs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/23/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Strategies which help ACOs to improve patient outcomes
  • Employers to shift to ACOs, build IT platforms to aid worker health
  • ACOs Save More Compared to Medicare Advantage, Report Finds
  • 3 Ways Care Coordination Saves Your Healthcare Organization Money
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/16/2019

Featured Articles:

  • How successful ACOs treat their physicians
  • 5 Actions ACOs Should Take Now: Takeaways from Proposed CMS
  • Medical Groups Call for Value-Based Care Reforms to Reduce Burden
  • Lowered Spending Among Providers Participating in ACOs in Rural, Underserved Areas
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/9/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/2/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/26/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/19/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/12/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/5/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/28/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/21/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/14/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care: What’s working, what isn’t and where to go from here
  • Medicare ACOs Improving Care Coordination With Health IT, But Still Have Work To Do
  • 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
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/7/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Accountable Care Organizations Lower Costs Compared to HMOs, PPOs
  • Caravan Health, Texas Hospital Association Partner to Launch Statewide ACO
  • ‘Eyes In The Home’: ACOs Use Home Visits To Improve Care Management, Identify Needs, And Reduce Hospital Use
  • Patients want providers to do more about their unmet social needs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/31/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 5/24/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 5/17/2019

Featured Articles:

  • 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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ACO Newsstand 5/10/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs less likely to leave Medicare program after 3rd year
  • How Will New Primary Care Models Affect Providers In VBHC?
  • Medicaid ACO Growth Still Lags Behind Medicare, Commercial Payers
  • Payers, Providers Agree: The Shift to Value will Require Transformative Change
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ACO Newsstand 5/3/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Strategies for Success: Insights From Top Performing ACOs
  • 51% of ACOs Likely to Exit MSSP Due to Downside Risk Requirements
  • 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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