In late October 2024, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released data for the eleventh year of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). This marked the seventh consecutive year ...

Many rural providers, like critical access hospitals, rely on cost-based reimbursement or flat, encounter-based payments like ...

Improving maternal health in the United States is an urgent public health concern, and Medicaid ACOs represent the type of comprehensive intervention that has the capacity to address barriers to ...

Emerging accountable care organizations that are focusing extensively on primary care redesign may be overlooking a part of the care continuum that may yield the greatest benefit — post-acute care.

As the post-acute care industry continues transitioning towards a value-based care system, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should start to consider participating in an Accountable Care Organization ...

Participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs) demonstrated more favorable outcomes for patients with diabetes in rural areas compared with those in urban areas, particularly in kidney ...

The notion of gleaning insights from mountains of health information, then applying those precisely to individual patients hinges on the confluence of various factors. Indeed, against the backdrop of ...

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...