Community Care Cooperative (C3), the largest and most successful non-profit, FQHC-governed ACO in the country, announced today that it achieved $10.2 million in shared savings through the Medicare ...

Historical benchmarking created “selection on slopes,” structurally favoring inefficient ACOs with more reducible spending and limiting reward potential for efficient organizations nearing a spending ...

Atlantic Health, a system of seven hospitals based in Morristown, New Jersey, has the accountable care organization, Atlantic ACO, and is also associated with the Optimus ACO and the Premier ACO for ...

CMS just released 2016 data on the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the information proves that patience pays off, savings don't have to happen at the expense of quality, and that physician-led ...

Of the 114 accountable care organizations that joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2012, just 54 saved money in their first 12 months, and only 29 of those generated enough savings to share ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

CMMI has spent more than a decade learning which organizations consistently deliver high-value care. The next step is to let ...

On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 calendar year (CY 2026) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Proposed Rule). Among the many changes proposed, the ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) have been credited with modest savings, but new research suggests the savings may be lower if it comes not from ...