Health Affairs

Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2: Building On The ACO Model

Rather than bringing the same entities that have raised costs in Medicare Advantage into traditional Medicare through Direct Contracting, CMS should provide a multi-year strategy to make the ACO ...
Health Affairs

Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game

While the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the past two years have seen another epidemic of a far different type—in financing and acquisitions of firms focused on serving Medicare beneficiaries. While the ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Skylight Health Partners with Major National Direct Contracting Entity for Value-Based Care Participation

The Direct Contracting Model (the “Model”) was designed by the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) as the next evolution in risk sharing arrangements to produce value and high-quality healthcare. The Model ...
Business Wire

Landmark Health to Participate in the Innovation Center’s Direct Contracting Model

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Landmark Health and its affiliated medical groups (Landmark) today announced participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (Innovation ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Hospital ACOs raised Medicare spending 0.8% under ACO REACH: 8 notes

Health system-led standard ACOs increased Medicare spending by 0.8% over ACO REACH’s first three years, while ACOs built around independent physician practices cut spending by the same 0.8%, a ...