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"93% of MIPS-eligible clinicians received a positive payment adjustment for their 2017 performance. 95% overall avoided a negative payment adjustment."
Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Accountable Care News, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2019, Industry News: "CMS Says Vast Majority of Providers Got Positive Adjustment."

 
What's News
  ACOs Want Deadline Extended for CMS's Pathways to Success Applications 
HealthLeaders Media, January 11, 2019
 
     
  How ACOs Use Population Segmentation to Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
The Commonwealth Fund, January 3, 2019
 
     
  Patient-centered care innovations by ACOs: Lessons from leaders
Healthcare, abstract only, December 26, 2018
 
     
  CMS Releases Final MSSP Rule for ACOs
HealthLeaders Media, December 21, 2018
 
     
  NAACOS Statement on CMS’s Final ‘Pathways’ Rule and Next Gen ACO Results
National Association of ACOs Press Release, December 21, 2018
 
     
Insights
  The MSSP Final Rule: Implications for Medicaid ACOs
Center for Health Care Strategies, January 8, 2019
 
     
  How one ACO took on burnout
Medical Economics, January 10, 2019
 
     
  Case report: Patient-centered care innovations by ACOs: Lessons from leaders
Healthcare via ScienceDirect, abstract only, December 26, 2018
 
     
  CMS overhauls ACO program: 7 things to know
Becker's Hospital Review, December 21, 2018
 
     
This Month in Accountable Care News
 
  • ACOs Win Some, Lose Some in Final 'Pathways' Rules
  • ACO Stakeholders: 'Experience Most Important Success Factor'
  • Perspectives
  • ACOs' Medicare Savings So Far: $2.7B
  • Accolades
  • Movers & Shakers
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: "What's your opinion? Will the 'Pathways' program move value-based care forward, or will it, as the American Hospital Association says, 'likely result in a significant decrease in program participation'?"
  • Industry News with briefs regarding NAACOS, Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, Mercy Health, Oak Street Health and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
 
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