Healthcare Innovation September 14, 2019
Three leaders from NAACOS, the National Association of ACOs, including Clifton Gaus, its president and CEO, have published an extensive, detailed critique of CMS’s current policies around the MSSP program
Writing in an opinion piece in the Health Affairs Blog on September 11, three leaders from NAACOS, the Arlington, Virginia-based National Association of ACOs, strongly disputed key assertions made this year by Seema Verma, Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The NAACOs leaders asserted, in their article, “ACO Participation Numbers Worth Watching as CMS Changes Take Root,” that Administrator Verma has framed the current statistics around the participation of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in a way that overstates MSSP-participating ACOs’...