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This paper discusses the changes to the financial benchmark methodology that measures the gross savings or losses of an accountable care organization under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

This paper examines the Medicare Shared Savings Program’s (MSSP) final rule from the perspective of different accountable care organization (ACO) situations to help readers understand how the MSSP rule might affect different ACOs.

All accountable care organizations (ACOs) will be affected by the Medicare Shared Savings Program if enacted, and the impact of the rule change will vary by ACO depending on its current situation and unique characteristics.

This paper discusses “Pathways to Success” and the important implications in store for Medicare accountable care organizations.

This paper provides a summary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ sweeping proposed regulations that will significantly change the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

This article describes the changes in the historical benchmarks and performance expenditures for a number of Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations and also explains the possible impact of these changes.

A challenge facing providers and payers is to design shared risk payment models that incentivize providers to deliver efficient, high-quality care without assuming too much insurance risk from payers.

This article provides insight into the 2015 gross savings/(losses) achieved by accountable care organizations in their third performance year of the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

For shared risk agreements to be transformational, providers and payers must work together to construct agreements that adequately reward providers, are economically viable over a multiyear period, and strive to transfer care management risk.

This article identifies five key considerations that all accountable care organizations (ACOs) should closely review before deciding whether or not to use the Next Generation ACO Model.