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Medicare Shared Savings Program Saves Medicare More Than $1.8 Billion in 2022 and Continues to Deliver High-quality Care

Jason Free — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:08:19 +0000

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved money for Medicare while continuing to support high-quality care.

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NAACOS Task Force Recommends Path Toward Digital Quality Measurement

Jason Free — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:37:50 +0000

CMS must work with accountable care organizations (ACOs) to establish a small pilot that tests the reporting of quality data pulled from electronic health records (EHRs) before moving to a program-wide mandate. That’s the key recommendation from a new position paper developed by a National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) task force aimed at developing recommendations for how to successfully collect and electronically report on ACOs’ quality of care through disparate health information technology (IT) systems.

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Medicare ACO Participation Flat in 2022 NAACOS Issues a Call to Action for CMS to Spur ACO Growth

Jason Free — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:22:29 +0000

The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the country’s dominant value-based payment program, only modestly increased to 483 in 2022.

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