MedPage Today February 14, 2020
Joyce Frieden

– Practices will need some help learning to share risk, expert says

WASHINGTON — Want doctors to get into alternative payment model arrangements like accountable care organizations (ACOs)? Start with “baby steps” like giving them only upside risk, Greg Griggs, executive vice president and CEO of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, in Raleigh, said here at the National Health Policy Conference.

“I think there is becoming more a threshold for risk, but I think you’ve got to get to shared savings first before you get to risk because it gets practices used to looking at things differently,” Griggs said at a panel discussion on Wednesday. “I also think you’ve got to have help — you’ve got to have...

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