AJMC March 29, 2022
The accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the new ACO REACH model will have a health equity benchmark adjustment and need to collect more data to help better understand the populations being cared for and serve those from underserved communities, said Michael Chernew, PhD, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School; chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; and co-editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Managed CareĀ®.
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There is a growing focus on addressing equity and disparities; how can models like ACO REACH address these issues?
They’ve put a lot of attention to equity in the new ACO REACH model. One of them is there’s...