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With the push towards health equity and away from a fee-for-service model of healthcare, risk-bearing organizations have an opportunity to join the ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) program. In the program, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encourages ACO REACH participants to work with underserved communities. Further, the program guidelines mandate the identification and mitigation of health equity barriers as well as corresponding reporting on the actions taken to address them.
Making progress effectively towards improved patient health outcomes matters as penalties will ensue in 2024 for ACO REACH participants whose efforts only look good on paper and do not deliver in practice.