Healthcare Innovation December 16, 2021
Mark Hagland

On Dec. 16, the leaders of NAACOS sent a letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure asking her to affirm CMS’s support for core existing elements of federal ACO contracting terms

On Dec. 16, the Washington-based NAACOS—the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations—sent a letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—defending alternative payment models (APMs) led by provider-based organizations, which the association sees as being imperiled by the possible introduction of the Geographic Direct Contracting Model, which would alter the terms under which ACOs currently function.

A press release that NAACOS leaders emailed to the news media on Thursday began thus: “In a letter sent today to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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