Becker's Healthcare January 17, 2023
CMS has launched three initiatives to grow and provide higher quality care to more than 13.2 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2023, helping the agency hit its goal of enrolling all people with traditional Medicare in an accountable care relationship with their provider by 2030.
Seven things to know:
1. More than 700,000 providers and organizations will participate in at least one of the three initiatives — the Medicare Shared Savings Program, the ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health Model, and the Kidney Care Choices Model.
2. ACOs are groups of physicians, hospitals and other providers, who collaborate to provide coordinated, high-quality care to Medicare patients. The benefits of ACOs include reduced costs and higher quality care, which ties into...