Healthcare Finance News September 2, 2022
CMS should make advance payments available to all ACOs working to achieve health equity, letter says.
Ahead of the September 6 comment deadline, the American Medical Association and 10 other provider organizations submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule affects accountable care organization models.
The rule, if finalized, would bring several positive changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Medicare’s largest value-based payment model, the organizations said in the September 1 letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.
This includes giving ACOs more time before advancing to the highest levels of risk, providing fairer, more accurate financial benchmarks, positive changes to quality scoring approaches and providing advanced...