title: Medicare ACOs no longer mythical creatures.
abstract: The proposed rule regarding accountable care organizations (ACOs), issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), included not only what was expected, but also a fair measure of what was not expected. Under CMS's proposal, ACOs would need to report on 65 different quality metrics to participate in the Medicare pilot program. ACOs would be eligible to share savings with CMS based on their overall quality scores and financial outcomes, and they would assume risk on one of two tracks.
authors.affiliation: HFMA's Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mulvany
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D017046:Cost Savings; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States