Healthcare Innovation November 6, 2025
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...







