This three-part blog post series highlights why Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) participants should evaluate Medicare Advantage as a longer-term strategy. In the first part, we covered the proposed “Pathways to Success” program from CMS, and the effort to push more ACOs into downside risk. In the second post, we discussed the limitations of the (…)

Trying to Accelerate the Move to Value? The Limitations of Medicare ACOs Ben Kline, Vice President Strategic Partnerships This three-part blog series covers why Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) participants need to formulate a long-term Medicare Advantage strategy. In the first post, we covered the proposed “Pathways to Success” program from CMS. In this second (…)

The accelerating push toward value-based healthcare is driving market disruption: hospital mergers and acquisitions, payers purchasing providers, and retail giants with health clinics proposing to merge with or buy insurance companies. In this landscape of upheaval academic medical centers (AMCs), like other hospitals, must adapt or risk becoming obsolete. However, AMCs have unique characteristics that (…)

This three-part blog series covers why Medicare ACO participants need to formulate a long-term Medicare Advantage strategy. In this first post, we will discuss the proposed “Pathways to Success” program from CMS. CMS recently announced a long-awaited proposed rule to redesign the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Medicare’s cornerstone initiative to reform the payment system. (…)