The ACCESS Coalition is a collaborative multi-sector forum designed to accelerate evidence-based technology-enabled care through the CMS Innovation Center’s ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model.
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The Accountable Care Prospective Trend (ACPT) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) could cost accountable care clinicians more than $700 million in lost shared savings for care delivered in 2025. These reductions are the result of inaccurate forecasting embedded directly into MSSP benchmarks.
As leaders move health care quality programs toward a technology-enabled future, accountable care organizations (ACOs) can play an integral role in piloting new initiatives, such as digital quality measures (dQMs), and evaluating the feasibility of approaches.
By James Pelletier – As healthcare providers strive to deliver better outcomes while managing costs, understanding the financial implications of MSSP Accountable Care Organization reporting becomes essential.
By James Pelletier – As the 2024 performance year ends, MSSP ACOs are bracing for new reporting obligations under the QPP. CMS is gearing up for a complete transition to digital quality measurement in 2025, mandating organizations to extract data from their practices’ certified EHRs.
Accountable care organizations have been around in Medicare for more than a decade, generating more than $22 billion in savings and giving back more than $8 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund. But a handful of ACOs has consistently been at the top of the list of top savers, including…
By Mo Weitnauer – Healthcare quality reporting is evolving, and accountable care organizations are at the forefront of this change. In 2025, ACOs will be required to shift from traditional quality reporting via the CMS Web Interface to eCQMs, marking a significant transition in their reporting process.
The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving Medicare patients will grow slightly in 2023, according to data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
More than 800 health care associations, ACOs, medical practices, and health systems urged leaders in Congress in a letter sent to extend incentive payments.