HealthIT Answers June 21, 2021
Legislation Corrects Flaw in ACOs’ Financial Targets
In a letter sent to Congress, 13 leading healthcare organizations, including the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) (@NAACOSnews), expressed their strong support for a recently reintroduced bill that fixes a flaw in the way financial targets, or benchmarks, are set for Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The Accountable Care in Rural America Act (H.R. 3746) would improve the accuracy and fairness for evaluating ACOs, especially those in rural areas. Specifically, the bill would require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remove an ACO’s assigned patients when calculating the costs of patients in the ACO’s region, which partially determines that ACO’s benchmark, the CMS-set spending target to which an ACO is...
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