Healthcare Finance News August 21, 2024
Susan Morse

The CMMI model includes downsize risk and accounts for holistic care, such as mental and behavioral health, and health equity.

Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at VillageMD’s Center for Public Policy.

The VillageMD accountable care organization is a primary care physician-led ACO that has been successful in the full risk and value-based ACO REACH (Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) model, according to Jacobs.

In July, the CMS Innovation Center announced several changes that Jacobs said are due to an evaluation done in 2022 of the former direct contracting model that ACO REACH replaced. The...

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