In March 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new voluntary model called the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model). This model focuses on primary care delivery within the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which is Medicare’s longest-running program whereby health care practitioners and other providers and suppliers form an Accountable Care Organization (or ACO) to provide coordinated, high quality care to Medicare beneficiaries. Continue reading to learn more about the ACO PC Flex model.Continue Reading An Overview of the ACO Primary Care Flex (ACO PC Flex) Model
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CMS Innovation Center Redesigns Direct Contracting Entity Model, Launches ACO REACH
By Troy A. Barsky & Savanna Williams on
Posted in Crowell Health Solutions, Medicare
CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and CMS Innovation Center Director Elizabeth Fowler continue to forge ahead with the Biden-Harris Administration’s plans to evaluate and streamline the alternative payment models being tested at the Innovation Center. The most recent example, announced late last month, includes the redesign and renaming of the controversial Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model that aims to introduce value-based payment arrangements in traditional Medicare. The newly announced model, renamed the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model, aligns with CMS’s restated goals for the Innovation Center—as outlined in its October 2021 “strategic refresh” white paper—to drive accountable care, advance health equity, support care innovations, improve access by addressing affordability, and partner to achieve system transformation.
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