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May 2013

Recent Stories of Interest

From ACO Business News - CMS’s just-launched Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative, designed to move Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease into accountable care organizations, already is facing headwinds, with a CMS-spurred delay in the application deadline and a request for significant changes in the program from an organization representing numerous major ESRD players. Originally, applications for the initiative were due on May 1. However, CMS extended the deadline to July 1 following some pushback from ESRD providers, who complained they didn’t have enough time to develop their proposals. However, ESRD providers also are complaining about substantive issues involving the three-year program. Read more

As more provider organizations seek out accountable care partnerships with insurers, those… Read more

Eighteen of the 32 Medicare Pioneer accountable care organizations have petitioned CMS… Read more

Telemonitoring systems that use computerized interactive voice response (IVR) technology to monitor… Read more

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October 1, 2012
NCQA releases technical specifications for ACO standards

The National Committee for Quality Assurance released the technical specifications for the HEDIS accreditation standards for ACOs. Click here to read a fact sheet from NCQA.

August 22, 2012
Correction

ABN's August issue contained an incomplete list of ACOs selected by CMS to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program with a July 1, 2012, start date. Click here for the complete list.

July 9, 2012
CMS Adds 89 More ACOs to MSSP

CMS selects 89 more ACOs to take part in Medicare Shared Saving Program, for total of 154 participants http://tinyurl.com/738hwp5

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