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As we reported last week, with the change of administrations that will be coming in January, the leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), which represents hundreds of accountable care organizations nationwide, on Thursday, Nov. 12, published an outline of what they consider to be successful ACO models, and NAACOS’s president and CEO has published an analysis in the Health Affairs Blog.
We noted that, in a press release published to the association’s website, NAACOS’s leaders said on Thursday that, “As the Biden-Harris administration starts its transition work and crafts its policy priorities, an evaluation published today of different alternative payment models (APMs) outlined the success of accountable care organization (ACO) models, which make providers financially responsible for all of patients’ spending over the course of a year. Compared to APMs that focus on discrete episodes of care or patients’ medical homes, ACO models have generated savings while maintaining quality of care. As such, Clif Gaus, NAACOS president and CEO, and David Pittman, NAACOS policy and communications advisor, argue in a Health Affairs Blog published today that the Biden-Harris administration should focus their attention on ACO models as they work to change the way Medicare pays hospitals, doctors and other providers.