Citing the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, 10 leading healthcare organizations are urging CMS not to move forward with changes to how accountable care organizations and other alternative payment models are assessed on quality in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the merit-based incentive payment system. The proposed changes are in the 2021 proposed physician fee schedule….
A new survey confirms a growing concern among accountable care organizations (ACOs) – most ACOs are unlikely to meet rising participation thresholds for MACRA’s Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in 2021. The survey from the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) recently found that more than 90 percent of ACOs participating in an Advanced APM, including the Medicare Shared…
The majority of physicians now participate in an accountable care organization (ACO), the American Medical Association (AMA) recently reported. Overall, 53.8 percent of physicians polled in September 2018 for the AMA’s Physician Practice Benchmark Survey reported participating in at least one ACO type that year. The percentage is up from 44.0 percent in 2016, the recently…
Physician-only ACOs have been leaders in quality and achieving real savings since the inception of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, according to an AMA resource. Here are seven things to know. 1. According to a CMS fact sheet, the number of ACOs participating in the various tracks of the MSSP increased from 480 in 2017…