National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) President and CEO Clif Gaus is retiring in the fall. The organization will look for a new CEO with a search committee. Gaus founded NAACOS in 2012 as the first and only national org to serve ACOs. Since then, the number of ACOs in the country have grown from 100…
At this week’s spring meeting of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were asked to respond to growing concerns about the impact of widespread anomalous billing and suspected fraud involving urinary catheters that is impacting Medicare ACO results. According to a February 2024 story in the…
In April 11 testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, American College of Surgeons (ACS) Executive Director and CEO Patricia L. Turner, M.D., M.B.A., said surgeons seeking to move beyond fee for service still find few physician-focused alternative payment models (APMs) available since none of the models submitted to the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory…
Accountable care organizations have sounded the alarm on billions in durable medical equipment fraud, and officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Thursday that the agency is monitoring the issue. The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) told the feds that a review of data from CMS’ Virtual Research Data Center found…
Changes to leadership and structure are in the plans for the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS). Founding President and CEO Clif Gaus, ScD, announced he will step down in the fall. He has been with the organization since its start in December 2012. NAACOS now has 450 members; since its start, the market…
Medicare leaders say they are committed to helping accountable care organizations work toward agency’s 2030 goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships. Three top leaders within the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services spoke during the opening plenary of the 2024 spring conference of the National Association of Accountable…
A new volume outlines the best ways to find success as health care entities integrate value-based care arrangements into their operations. The American Medical Association, the National Association of ACOs (NAACOs) and AHIP, the trade group representing America’s health insurance payers, collaborated to publish“Creating a Sustainable Future for Value-Based Care: A Playbook of Voluntary Best…
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are increasing in popularity as healthcare organizations strive to improve care quality and operational efficiency. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that more Medicare patients than ever – nearly 13.4 million beneficiaries – are being cared for by ACOs this year. The largest ACOs serve Medicare…
Collaborations with participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Primary Care Flex demo could allow hospices to leverage their skill sets to access more patients. Hospices and palliative care providers can come to ACOs by two main avenues. They can become members of those organizations themselves, or they…
Value-based care has gotten a lot of attention in the health care industry over the past 10 years, but the truth is, it has not succeeded in what it was intended to do at scale. In fact, research shows that value-based care models have not lowered costs or improved patient outcomes at scale. Individual contributions…