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Feds unveil new enrollment system for Medicare ACOs

Ever since the creation of Medicare ACOs as part of the ACA, federal officials have gone back and forth with providers about how to design a system which rewards and incentivizes quality care.

By Jack Craver | Updated on March 27, 2017
What's on the horizon for ACOs? (Photo: iStock)

In its drive to reduce Medicare spending, the federal government is trying to increase participation in accountable care organizations by aligning patients with a particular ACO if their primary care doctor is part of one.

The change comes in response to complaints from doctors about the current system, in which the administration assigns a certain number of a doctor’s patients to the ACO retroactively, meaning the ACO is not being judged based on all of the patients it treats. That system, say officials, was aimed at preventing doctors from cherry-picking the healthiest patients to participate in the program.

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