Changes in Patients' Experiences in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations

Medicare Accountable Care Organizations: Beneficiary Assignment Update.

This brief updates Brief No. 2014-3 and explains changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) regulations issued in June 2015 pertaining to beneficiary assignment for Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs. Overall, the regulatory changes are intended to (1) encourage ACOs to participate in two-sided risk contracts, (2) increase the likelihood ...

Patients' role in accountable care organizations.

I ever there were a crisis mo­ ment that crystallized the need for reforming the U.S. health care delivery system, this is it. The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) promises to expand health insur­ ance coverage, a key first step toward improving health equity. But newly insured Americans will gain access to a strained, frag­ mented system that often fails to deliver effective, efficient care. Mea...

Medicare Accountable Care Organizations: Quality Performance by Geographic Categories.

Purpose. This policy brief continues the work of the RUPRI Center analyzing the performance of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) serving rural areas. In this brief, we examine the differences in performance on four domains of quality measures and the overall quality score among Medicare Shared Savings ACOs with different levels of rural presence. Key Findings. (1) ACOs located in r...

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable care organizations.