Health Affairs

Editor’s note: For more on the first round of Medicare Shared Savings Program participants and payment and delivery system reform, see Douglas Hastings’s post. On Tuesday April 10, CMS announced 27 ACOs had begun operating under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), joining the 32 Pioneer ACOs announced in December and the 6 physician group... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s note: See additional posts discussing Pioneer accountable care organizations by Debra Ness and William Kramer and Douglas Hastings. The December 19 announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of 32 Medicare Pioneer ACOs underscores the transition of “shared savings” and “accountable care” from policy concepts to implementation. Perhaps more than any... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: The post below discusses the recent announcement regarding accountable care organizations by the Center For Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. This is also the topic of another post, by Douglas Hastings, published today on Health Affairs Blog. For large entities that already successfully participate in managed care, the recently announced Center for Medicare and... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note:This post is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You can read earlier posts in the series by Mark McClellan and Elliott Fisher, Douglas Hastings, and Ron Klar. Watch this... Read the rest of this entry »