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How ACO REACH Compares to Direct Contracting
On February 24, 2022, the CMS Innovation Center released the details on a new payment model, ACO REACH. ACO REACH represents a series of changes made to Global and Professional Direct Contracting (“Direct Contracting”, GPDC) to respond to criticisms faced by the program. ACO REACH adds in exciting new components aimed at closing health equity…
What Is Value-Based Care, What It Means for Providers?
Value-based care is a form of reimbursement that ties payments for care delivery to the quality of care provided and rewards providers for both efficiency and effectiveness. This form of reimbursement has emerged as an alternative and potential replacement for fee-for-service reimbursement, which pays providers retrospectively for services delivered based on bill charges or annual…
How The Principles Of Environmental Justice Can Improve Health Equity
In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit brought together close to 300 Black, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Asian American, and other activists of color to elevate the environmental justice movement, which aims to address the inequitable distribution of environmental risks among vulnerable populations. The movement was founded by people…
CMS changing direct contracting to an ACO gets mixed reaction
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has redesigned its Medicare Direct Contracting Model to an Accountable Care Organization model focused on health equity. The ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model will replace the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model at the end of the year. The new ACO REACH Model…
CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023
The Biden administration is redesigning the controversial Direct Contracting Model to add new requirements to tackle health equity and ease progressive lawmakers’ concerns over the role of private equity. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that the professional and global Direct Contracting Model will transition in 2023 to the Accountable Care…
CMS redesigns Direct Contracting into an ACO model
The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model will be replaced with a more equity-focused and provider-led Accountable Care Organization Model in 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday. The agency also officially will end the Geographic Direct Contracting model, which it halted last March. The redesigned model, called the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community…
Remote Patient Monitoring Best Practices: Tips For Setting Your RPM Program Up For Success
With the advent of mHealth devices and telehealth platforms, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has gained traction as a legitimate care pathway. Using connected health tools that can track patients at home as they go about their daily routines, care providers can now monitor patients’ vital signs, adjust care plans on the fly, intervene when necessary,…
What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of The Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt The COVID-19 pandemic has provided…
Podcast: NAACOS Health Policy Update and the Rumored Cancellation of the GPDC Model, with Allison Brennan
Allison Brennan is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) in Washington, D.C. where she helps develop and advocate for policies to benefit ACOs. In this special bonus episode, she provides an extensive update on health policy and directly addresses the critics of the Global and Professional Direct…