Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs. The Centers for Medicare and ...

Julian Malinak, MPH, finance lead for the pioneer accountable care organization (ACO) and next generation ACO models and technical advisor for financial policy at CMS Innovation Center, explained that ...

During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

On 24 February 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), unveiled the new “ACO REACH” Model (Accountable Care ...

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no ...

Many of us have been waiting to hear the final word about what’s next from CMS for the Next Generation ACO Model. On May 21, 2021, CMS’s Innovation Center (“CMMI”) confirmed that the Next Generation ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--agilon health, inc. (NYSE: AGL), the trusted partner empowering physicians to transform health care in our communities, announced that its Accountable Care ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We are recording on 11/07/2025. This is the last episode for the year, so we're publishing this episode on November 21. Thank ...

Success of the accountable care organization (ACO) model may require stronger financial incentives, such as including downside risk in contracts. Using the National Survey of ACOs, we explored ACO ...

Many providers are finding they don’t yet have the resources to participate in or take on the risks associated with accountable care organizations. But it’s not an all-or-nothing situation. In fact, ...

Since joining the model in 2021, agilon REACH ACOs achieved $281 million in gross savings, including $71 million in savings to Medicare Trust Fund AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- agilon health, inc. ...