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Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure on the Higher Spending on Two Catheter Codes and the Impact on ACOs
The undersigned organizations write to request that accountable care organizations (ACOs) are held harmless from anomalous Medicare spending outside their control, such as the aberrant billing for catheters experienced in 2023.
Accountable Care Organizations
What are Accountable Care Organizations? What are ACOs? An ACO is a group of clinicians, hospitals and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care a designated group of patients.
AHA Comments on FTC and DOJ Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Re: Accountable Care Organizations
AHA Comments on FTC and DOJ Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Re: Accountable Care Organizations.
CMMI Announces Transition of Direct Contracting Model into new ACO REACH Model
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Feb. 24 announced a redesign of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC), which launched last year and was supposed to continue through 2026.
AHA, Others to CMS Re: Request to Provide MSSP ACOs an Option to Use Pre-Pandemic Years To Set Benchmarks
A coalition of hospital and physician organizations, including the AHA, urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to give Medicare accountable care organizations the option to use pre-pandemic spending benchmarks to set financial targets beginning in performance year 2022.
CMS Releases CY 2022 Proposed Rule for Physician Fee Schedule Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 13 issued a proposed rule that would update physician fee schedule (PFS) payments for calendar year (CY) 2022.
AHA, Health Organizations Express Support for the Accountable Care In Rural America Act
AHA, health organizations express support for the Accountable Care in Rural America Act.
AHA, Others Urge HHS to Extend Next Generation ACO Model
Fourteen organizations, including the AHA, urge the Department of Health and Human Services to extend the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model through 2022, and create a permanent full-risk ACO option based on it for the future.
Legislative Advisory: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
On February 9, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a massive budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health syste
Coalition Voices Support for the Value in Health Care Act of 2020
Thirteen organizations representing health care providers, including the AHA, voiced support for the Value in Health Care Act, legislation to strengthen Medicare’s value-based payment models and accountable care organizations.