Fierce Health Payers October 25, 2021
Robert King

The Biden administration needs to develop new quality measures and create bonuses to help ensure accountable care organizations can address health equity, an advocacy group says.

The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) released a white paper Monday outlining key recommendations on how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can use ACOs to help close equity gaps. The white paper comes a few days after the agency released a strategic refresh that calls on value-based care to better tackle equity.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has so far not laid out detailed requirements for ACOs and other providers to tackle equity in value-based care, only that it wants them to gather more data on race and ethnicity of...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Equity/SDOH, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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