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.
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.