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Key Insights:
- Providers in alternative payment models (APMs) used population health strategies to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, showing the need for accountable care organizations (ACOs) in critical situations.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has declared that COVID-19 expenditures will not be counted against existing ACOs’ performance metrics.
- For future ACOs: CMS has not designated a 2021 enrollment period for new ACOs or Next Generation ACOs.