McKnight's February 22, 2024
If federal regulators truly want to ensure better care coordination for long-term care patients, they must adopt changes that make Accountable Care Organizations more accessible and more financially rewarding for skilled nursing providers.
That’s the message of a new white paper on ACO participation published Wednesday by the American Health Care Association/ National Center for Assisted Living and the National Association of ACOs and shared with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The recommendations call for “attributing” patient lives to nursing homes, which can then share in an organization’s savings when they hit certain goals.
The organizations said their recommendations would increase the participation of long-term and post-acute care providers in ACOs, which are groups of doctors, hospitals and...
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