Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved $2.4 billion in 2024, according to data released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Carol Ann Hudson is assistant vice president, quality and clinical operations, population health, at Lifepoint Health, a national health system and accountable care organization based in Brentwood, ...

Genevra F. Murray ([email protected]) is a research scientist at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Accountable Care Organizations are struggling to find specialists to improve value-based care, although it is a top priority Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, ACOs face ...

Accountable Care Organizations saved Medicare $2.4 billion relative to benchmarks in 2024, and most ACOs are earning performance payments in the billions, according to Medicare Shared Savings Program ...

Becker’s Hospital Review is pleased to highlight a variety of Medicare and commercial payer accountable care organizations, led by hospitals and health systems, physician groups and other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Robert Pearl covers the people, tech and business of healthcare. This article is more than 10 years old. In a recent interview ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) face unique burdens to comply with CMS’s new quality reporting requirements as summarized in this 2021 MedCity News article. Challenges are particularly acute for ...

Ethical analysis of population health management calls for a communitarian vs individual approach, starting with reconceiving “covered lives” as “patient communities.” US health care has long sought ...

Seven durable medical equipment companies cost the Medicare system $2 billion in payments, the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) told the federal government in recent months. But it's unclear just ...

The CMS made a profit from the Medicare Shared Savings Program last year as more accountable care organizations moved to risk-based contracts and gained experience, new federal data show. About 60% of ...