The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering more flexibility for accountable care organizations in its Medicare Shared Savings Program, a move intended to keep and grow provider ...

Despite the many Medicare shared savings ACOs that cut enough of their spending in 2014 to merit financial incentives in 2014, the lion's share of them fell below the payment threshold, the Centers ...

The American Medical Group Association and the American Hospital Association issued responses to CMS’ proposed changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program and made various recommendations to the ...

CMS just released 2016 data on the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the information proves that patience pays off, savings don't have to happen at the expense of quality, and that physician-led ...

In an effort to strengthen incentives for accountable care organizations, CMS has proposed a rule that includes a number of changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. “This proposal allows ACOs ...

Privia ACOs Delivered Total Annual Average Expenditures 8% Lower than Median MSSP ACO and 19% Lower than Total Fee-For-Service Medicare $131.7 Million in Shared Savings Delivered across seven ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) have been credited with modest savings, but new research suggests the savings may be lower if it comes not from ...

On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 calendar year (CY 2026) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Proposed Rule). Among the many changes proposed, the ...

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., March 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LTC ACO, the first Accountable Care Organization (ACO) in the U.S. dedicated to long-term care facility residents, announced it received a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Of the 114 accountable care organizations that joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2012, just 54 saved money in their first 12 months. Overall, the program’s 2012 ACOs generated a total of ...