DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 6 (June)

Provider groups: ACOs must offer more money, fewer risks or docs won’t bother

You and your peers won’t have many good reasons to participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs) unless CMS makes big changes to its proposed ACO rule, according to four major provider advocacy groups. “The current requirements proposed for acceptance as an ACO by Medicare under this program sets too high of a bar for participation by many internal medicine physicians, especially [those] who practice in smaller, independent physician practices,” writes the American College of Physicians.

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