Healthcare Innovation November 6, 2025
David Raths

At NAACOS meeting, LTC ACO’s Kristen Krzyżewski explains the savings opportunities available when taking a value-based care approach

Key Highlights

  • Key focus areas for LTC ACO include preventing hospitalizations through predictive analytics, managing transitions of care, and optimizing hospice and palliative care utilization.
  • Challenges include attribution complexities due to provider roles and mismatched quality measures that do not fully reflect the needs of end-of-life populations.
  • LTC ACO continues to expand its scope, incorporating assisted living and advocating for policy changes to better support its unique patient demographic.

When it launched in 2016, Long-Term Care ACO was the first ACO to focus on the population of Medicare beneficiaries who reside in long-term care nursing facilities, but now...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Payment Models, Post-Acute Care, Provider, Value Based
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