Clinicians seek more time in risk-free ACO track

Dive Brief:

• Provider organizations are urging CMS to allow Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue for three more years without taking on financial risk.
• Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), ACOs that began in 2012 or 2013 face their third contract period in 2019 and will have to move from Track 1 to a risk-based model.
• Currently, 561 ACOs are participating in the MSSP — 82% of which are still in Track 1, according to a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma last week.

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