Fierce Health Payers April 21, 2020
Robert King

Accountable care organizations are racing to implement telehealth and remote patient monitoring to coordinate care and stay afloat financially during the COVID-19 outbreak, a new survey found.

The survey of 20 ACOs led by researchers with Hamilton College and Within Health, a startup that helps ACOs with radiology workflow, explored strategies that ACOs are using to mitigate shared losses and how they plan to weather the financial crisis caused by the outbreak.

Half of the ACOs surveyed expect that preventive health measures will be the hardest to meet due to COVID-19. Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program, an ACO must meet a series of metrics that include preventive health screening for smoking, cancer or vaccines to get a share of...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Market Research, Medicare, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Trends, Value Based
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