Managed Healthcare Executive May 26, 2024
Lynn Carroll , Brian Norris

CMS recently introduced a new ACO model designed to ease the cost of setup for low-revenue ACOs focusing on primary care. The ACO Primary Care (PC) Flex Model will launch on New Year’s Day 2025.

To provider organizations, the Change Healthcare hack in February was a painful reminder of a lesson learned during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A disruption in revenue flow can lead to financial disaster or even closure.

Many smaller hospitals and medical offices have struggled to get paid since the ransomware attack shut down Change’s billing and payment system. Similarly, provider organizations that relied heavily or even solely on fee-for-service (FFS) in 2020, but, as a result of the COVID pandemic, could not treat...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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