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AHIP, AMA, NAACOS Release Playbook on Sustainable Future for Value-Based Care

Jason Free — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:40:42 +0000

AHIP, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) announced the release of data sharing best practices that organizations may voluntarily adopt to support a sustainable future for value-based care (VBC). The playbook, The Future of Sustainable Value-Based Care and Payment: Voluntary Best Practices to Advance Data Sharing, is intended to advance the adoption of VBC arrangements in the private sector that could have a greater impact on the quality and equity of care and ease participation by fostering voluntary alignment of data sharing practices.

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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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Eleven Provider Organizations Support Proposed ACO Changes Groups Commend Policies to Grow ACO Participation

Jason Free — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:49:09 +0000

In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the proposed 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, 11 leading national healthcare associations and stakeholder groups applauded the agency’s work to grow participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare.

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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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