Home Health Care News March 19, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary model Tuesday – centered around primary care providers – that could offer home-based care providers more opportunity to dive into risk-based care.
Dubbed the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model), it will provide one-time advanced shared savings payments and monthly prospective primary care payments to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to empower primary care providers, according to a CMS release.
The model was another creation of the CMS Innovation Center.
But here’s the key note for home-based care providers:
“People whose primary care provider participates in the ACO PC Flex Model may get care in more convenient ways, like care based at home or through virtual...
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