Accountable Care Bulletin
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Insights
  How CMMI Value-Based Care Models Have Impacted Costs, Quality
RevCycle Intelligence, March 31, 2023
   
  Promote ACO Success Under Value-Based Payment With These 5 Data Sources
Roji Health Intelligence, March 30, 2023
   
  Healthcare Orgs Push for Hybrid Primary Care Payment Option in MSSP
RevCycle Intelligence, March 27, 2023
   
  COVID-19’s Impact on ACO REACH Deserves CMS’s Attention
NAACOS Blog, March 20, 2023
   
  Antitrust: DOJ Scuttles ACO Guidance, Unsettles Provider Joint Contracting Models
Foley & Lardner LLP, March 17, 2023
  
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  Changes in MSSP ACO Quality Performance Scores from 2019 to 2021

1.
Poorly controlled diabetes: no significant change
2. Controlled high blood pressure: fell 1.9%
3. Depression screening and follow-up plan: increased 4.1%
4. Screening for future fall risk: increased 1.9%
5. Influenza immunization: increased 5.6%
6. Tobacco use screening and cessation intervention: increased 3.1%
7. Colorectal cancer screening: increased 0.8%
8. Breast cancer screening: fell 1.1%
9. Statin therapy: increased 2.1%
10. Depression remission at 12 months: increased 11.7%)

Note: From an article entitled, "Changes in Medicare Accountable Care Organization Spending, Utilization, and Quality Performance 2 Years Into the COVID-19 Pandemic," by Brandon W. Yan, MPH; Maya Shashoua, MPH; and Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH.
 

Source: JAMA Network Open, March 29, 2023
 
 
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How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare The ACO REACH Model What Now?

Fred Bentley and Tina Pickett discuss key steps to take now to prepare your organization ahead of the launch of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) latest model, ACO REACH.

 
 
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What's News
  Telehealth medication management and health care spending in a Medicare ACO
Journal of Managed Care Specialty Pharmacy, April 2023
 
     
  Keystone First joins Crozer Health, MANNA in initiative to tackle food insecurity
The Philadelphia Sun, March 31, 2023
 
     
  PBMC announces partnership with AIO Food Pantry
Penobscot Bay Pilot, March 29, 2023
 
     
  Changes in Medicare ACO Spending, Utilization, and Quality Performance
JAMA Network Open, March 29, 2023
 
     
  OakWell Launches to Provide Primary Care Directly to Kidney Patients in Dialysis
Oak Street Health, March 22, 2023
 
     
  Eliminating Defects in Value: Turnaround of an MSSP ACO
The American Journal of Accountable Care, March 15, 2023
 
     
  The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Care and ACO Assignment on Skilled Nursing
Medical Care, March 15, 2023
 
     
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