Medical Economics April 11, 2024
Richard Payerchin

President and CEO Gaus to step down in the fall.

Changes to leadership and structure are in the plans for the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS).

Founding President and CEO Clif Gaus, ScD, announced he will step down in the fall. He has been with the organization since its start in December 2012. NAACOS now has 450 members; since its start, the market has grown from more than 100 Medicare ACOs to more than 600, with almost 600,000 clinicians serving more than 13 million beneficiaries, or almost 20% of all of Medicare.

“Clif has been an instrumental leader in the ACO movement, back to the passing of the Affordable Care Act,” said NAACOS board President Emily DuHamel Brower,...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Conferences / Podcast, Health System / Hospital, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Trends, Value Based
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