Accountable Care Bulletin
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Insights
  CMS tweaks ACO REACH to stabilize model
Healthcare Dive, August 15, 2023
   
  Principles to Inform Risk Adjustment Policy: Reflection From the Front Lines
JAMA Network, August 11, 2023
   
  New For ACOs: Roji TIPS For Implementing APP Reporting
Roji Health Intelligence blog, July 27, 2023
   
  Early thoughts on proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule changes
Milliman, July 27, 2023
   
  One-Third of ACOs Use Digital Health Tools to Treat Patients With OUD
The American Journal of Managed Care, July 27, 2023
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  Use of 9 Substance Use Disorder Treatment Resources by ACOs

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Addiction medicine specialist: 37.4%
2. Sufficient staff to treat SUDs: 12.6%
3. Specialty SUD treatment facility: 52.6%
4. Medications for OUD: 52.0%
5. Registry to identify patients with OUD: 57.0%
6. Registry to track mental health for patients with OUD: 27.5%
7. Remote mental health therapy and tracking: 26.5%
8. Virtual peer recovery support programs: 15.1%
9. Digital recovery support for adjuvant CBT: 9%

Notes: Data is from a 2022 national cross-sectional study of 304 respondents from 276 organizations with Medicare or Medicaid ACO contracts. SUD: substance use disorder. OUD: opioid use disorder. CBT: cognitive behavior therapy.
 

Source: "Provision of Digital Health Technologies for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment by US Health Care Organizations," JAMA Network Open, July 17, 2023.
 
 
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What's News
  Analysis of North Carolina Medicaid Claims Data to Simulate a Pediatric ACO
JAMA Network Open, August 4, 2023
 
     
  Trade-offs in locational choices for care coordination resources in ACOs
Health Care Management Review, abstract only, July 27, 2023
 
     
  3rd Evaluation Report: Evaluation of the Vermont All-Payer ACO Model
NORC at the University of Chicago, July 2023
 
     
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