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"ACOs participating over a longer period 'show greater improvement in financial performance;' for example, 42% of MSSP ACOs that started the program in 2012 earned savings in Performance Year 2016 versus 18% of those that began in 2016.'"
Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2018, "NAACOS Reports Dissatisfaction with MSSP, Asks Congress Not to Delay Some MIPS Standards."

 
What's News
  Vermont’s Bold Experiment in Community-Driven Health Care Reform
The Commonwealth Fund, May 10, 2018
 
     
  The ACO ‘Savings Confusion’
Open Minds, May 5, 2018
 
     
  NextGen ACO: 3 Steps to Value-Based Care
HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2018
 
     
  Changes in Specialty Care Use and Leakage in Medicare ACOs
The American Journal of Managed Care, abstract only, May 3, 2018
 
     
71% of ACOs would likely leave MSSP if required to assume risk
Becker's Hospital Review, May 3, 2018
     
  Distrib. of Visits for Chronic Conditions Bet. PC & Specialist Providers in MSS ACOs
Medical Care, May 2018
 
     
  How ACOs Can Use Pharmacists for Wellness Coaching, Engagement
PatientEngagement HIT, April 30, 2018
 
     
  Hospitals affiliated with ACOs reduced rehospitalizations from SNFs
Healio Orthopedics Today, April 26, 2018
 
     
  ACOs aren't ready to take on risk, lawmakers say
Becker's Hospital Review, April 23, 2018
 
     
  Hospitalist Value in an ACO World
Journal of Hospital Medicine, April 19, 2018
 
     
  ACOs don't always reap the expected financial reward. Place-based care could help
FierceHealthcare, April 18, 2018
 
     
  Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Medicaid ACOs
Center for Healthcare Strategies, April 18, 2018
 
     
30 largest ACOs by number of facilities
Becker's Hospital Review, April 17, 2018
     
Blogs
  Prioritizing Social Determinants of Health in Medicaid ACO Programs
CHCS Blog/Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., May 2, 2018
 
     
  BPCI Advanced Will Emphasize Overlap Between Bundled Payments And ACOs
Health Affairs Blog, April 17, 2018
 
     
This Month in Accountable Care News
  • Top 5 Strategies to Mitigate ACO Culture Clashes by Sarah Bliss Matousek PhD MPH
  • How Origami is Like Managing an ACO by Pranam Ben
  • NAACOS Reports Dissatisfaction with MSSP, Asks Congress Not to Delay Some MIPS Standards
  • Avalere: Medicare ACOs 'Increased Federal Spending, Contrary to Projections'
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: "Will ACO federal policy and regulations have more impact on payers and providers in the long term than ACO state-level policy and regulations? Or vice versa?"
  • Industry News regarding Cape Fear Valley Health, UnitedHealthcare, PeraHealth and Fallon Health.
  • Catching Up With... Sarah Bliss Matousek PhD MPH
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