Healthcare Innovation October 25, 2021
Mark Hagland

The leaders of NAACOS on Oct. 25 published a white paper in which they made recommendations on how the Medicare program can improve equity in health outcomes using ACO program quality requirements

The leaders of NAACOS, the National Association of ACOs, on Oct. 25 published a white paper in which they made recommendations on how the Medicare program can improve equity in health outcomes using the quality requirements in accountable care organizations.

As the NAACOS leaders noted in a press release published on Monday, “As part of all its ACO programs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) evaluates ACOs on a number of quality measures, such as uses of preventive screening tools and hospital readmissions. But current quality...

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