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Finance
One Key to ACO Spending Reductions? More Specialists.
ACOs in which 40% to 45% of the patient visits were provided by a specialist had $1,129 lower annual spending...
CMS Pressed to Extend Deadline on Pathways to Success Applications
Stakeholders say the existing February 19 application deadline for the Medicare Shared Savings Program 'will be challenging, if not impossible'...
Finance
Why These 9 Groups Want CMS to Limit Medicare ACO Changes
The organizations pushed for two edits, in particular, in a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
Innovation
CMS Pushes Demo Waiver of MIPS Requirements
Federal regulators say a demonstration waiver is needed because physicians would otherwise be subject to MIPS, even if they participate...
Clinical Care
Iora Health Looks to 'Kick the Industry in the Behind'
The value-based primary care model focuses on relationships with care teams that include physicians, health coaches, behavioral health specialists, nurses,...
Finance
MACRA Could Spawn Gentler Track for Downside Shared-Savings Risk
A proposal to create a new track in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) with limited downside risk is drawing...