Next Generation ACOs Must Defy FFS Gravity.

coming up with the ACO idea, is director of a health policy institute at Dartmouth’s medical school. But the medical center pulled out of the Pioneer program last year because of issues with CMS’s quarterly benchmarking methodology, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s leadership won’t commit to Next Gen until it knows more about the benchmarks it will be measured against. “We’ll see when we get to that point,” says Robert A. Greene, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s executive vice president and chief population health management officer. Emily Brower, vice president of population health at By Robert Calandra