Accountable Care Growth In 2014: A Look Ahead
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On December 23, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced 123 new Medicare Shared Savings Program [1] (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). This represents the fourth round of MSSP participants, which, coupled with the Pioneer ACOs, brings the number of Medicare ACOs to 366. Some of these organizations were already known to be ACOs, including those that transferred from the Pioneer ACO program, but many were new to accountable care, bringing the total number of public and private ACOs to 606.
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