CMS announces ACO initiatives
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:40 AM CST, Wed January 18, 2023
WASHINGTON – CMS has announced that three innovative accountable care initiatives will grow and provide higher quality care to more than 13.2 million people with Medicare in 2023. More than 700,000 health care providers and organizations will participate in at least one of the three initiatives: the Medicare Shared Savings Program; the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model; and the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model. This growth furthers CMS’s goal of having all people with traditional Medicare in an accountable care relationship with their health care provider by 2030. “Through the CMS accountable care initiatives and working with our partners, we have made significant progress in addressing our greatest health care challenges,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “Health care providers coming together as Accountable Care Organizations provide high quality and equitable care to people with Medicare while improving the sustainability of the Medicare program.”
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