Becker's Hospital Review | September 13, 2018
There are 649 ACOs across the U.S., according to the National Association of ACOs, including Medicare ACO program participants and independent ACOs. Around 12.3 million Medicare beneficiaries - 20 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries - participate in an ACO. CMS launched the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2012 including three tracks to encourage voluntary participation in ACO programs...
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Roji Health Intelligence | September 26, 2018
Amidst the furor over health care access and affordability, most consumers believe that the exceptional quality of America's health care is due to specialty medicine. But Value-Based Health Care may well dramatically change specialty practice by putting specialists under financial risk arrangements. That's because the most prestigious and flourishing providers in health care are also the most expensive for ACOs and health plans. That makes them a target for cost control..
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NAACOS Fall 2018 Conference
October 3-5, 2018 | Washington, DC
Colloquium 2018: The Essentials of Value-Based Care
3rd Annual Value-Based Care Summit
FLAACOs 2018 Fall Conference
October 18-19, 2018 | Orlando, FL
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ACO Strategy Summit
October 22-23, 2018 | Washington, DC
Patient-Centered Health Forum: Actionable Data for Connected Care
November 2, 2018 | Scottsdale, AZ
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Health Affairs | September 21, 2018
As described in our previous post, the MSSP saw for the first time a net savings for Medicare as calculated based on actual payments to ACOs (including bonuses) versus their benchmarks. The continuing trend of increasing net savings relative to benchmarks is consistent with a similar trend toward greater savings in "counterfactual" analyses that show larger reductions in net spending for MSSP beneficiaries compared to similar non-ACO beneficiaries..
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Health Exec | September 20, 2018
Accountable care organizations are finally achieving real savings for CMS, according to recent figures, with the majority of savings coming from ACOs that have been in the game longer. The longer ACOs are in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the more they save, according to an
analysis from Avalere Health, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare consulting firm.
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Roji Health Intelligence® guides organized health care systems and their providers on the path to Value-Based Health Care. We help our clients earn a reputation for delivering measurable clinical excellence at reasonable cost, with customized services via our ONC-certified technology platform, Roji Health Intelligence Clinical Data Registry (CDR). Our pioneering Roji ACO+ Network: Select Specialists, facilitates ACO development of high value networks of specialists, while also helping specialists safely navigate financial risk.
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