Fierce Healthcare September 8, 2022
Accountable care organizations are worried about how the loss of a 5% quality bonus could affect the recruitment and retention of physicians as the window for Congress to act to extend it narrows.
A 5% bonus payment to physicians that meet quality thresholds if they are in an alternative payment model will expire after this year. ACOs say the bonus, where 2022 is the final performance year, is a major selling point to entice physicians to enter into models as the money goes directly to them.
“It is a knowable, plannable and countable dollar,” said Emily Brower, senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for the hospital system Trinity Health.
Brower and several other ACO...
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