Modern Healthcare March 23, 2017
The CMS is trying to boost patient and provider participation in accountable care organizations by automating the process to pair patients with doctors participating in the care models.
In the coming weeks, a Medicare beneficiary can go to a website that contains their enrollment information and list his or her primary care doctor. If that doctor is in an ACO, they would be assigned to both that provider and their ACO starting next year.
“ACOs have told us they prefer to know with more certainty at the beginning of the performance year what beneficiaries the CMS will hold them accountable for, “Dr. Terri Postma, a medical officer in the Center for Medicare said during a meeting Wednesday with HHS’ Advisory...
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