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CMS Announces ACO REACH Policy Changes for 2024
CMS announced ACO REACH policy updates based on months of feedback from participants. Here, we will break out the important changes in policy and how the changes will affect participants.
A Deep Dive into the Details of Making Care Primary: What the CMS Request for Applications Tells Us about CMMI's Newest Primary Care Model
CMS Announces New Value-Based Primary Care Model for 2024: Making Care Primary
A new value-based model from CMMI unveils continued federal priorities around health equity, health-related social needs, and alternative payment models for primary care providers.
Biden Administration’s First Attempt to Use Social Risk to Adjust Health Care Spending Leaves Marginalized Communities Behind
The ACO REACH offering was billed as the first value-based offering from CMMI to explicitly support health equity–but our analysis shows that the tool used to measure social risk would shift resources away from dense, urban cities with high Black and Latino populations to largely rural areas in the South.
Crain’s: New ACO REACH model could help local providers advance health equity, experts say
HealthLeaders: 18 ACO REACH Awardees Have Quietly Withdrawn Their Applications
ACOs, Start Your Engines; CMS Gives 120+ ACO REACH Applicants the Green Light
After a rushed launch and hurried application timeline, CMS announces fewer than half ACO REAH applicants have been invited to participate in the latest value-based model for Medicare beneficiaries.
Health Care’s First Attempt at Social Risk Adjusting: How the ACO REACH Program Will Test a Financing Model Intended to Incentivize Equity
CMMI launches the first ever social risk adjustment methodology in the form of their new ACO model REACH. Read more about how this adjustment method works and what the impacts may yield.
Reaching for Equity: CMMI Ends Direct Contracting, Launches New Value Based ACO Model
CMS has ended the Direct Contracting program, choosing to replace it with a new Accountable Care model, name ACO REACH.
Planning for the Next Decade of Value-Based Care: Reviewing the CMS Innovation Center Strategy Refresh
Learn more about the next decade of value-based payment strategy documented in CMS’s innovation center strategy refresh.
New CMS Roadmap Puts the Spotlight on VBP
CMS Announces CMMI Model Flexibilities in light of COVID-19 Response; Commitment to VBP Remains Strong
The updates demonstrate CMS’s continued commitment to APMs and firm position that through widespread adoption of VBP, providers can count on “stable, predictable” revenue to withstand challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.