CMS Finalizes Rules For Medicare Shared Savings Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare Shared Savings Program to encourage the delivery of high-quality care for Medicare beneficiaries and build on the early successes of the program and of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model. CMS made these modifications to the proposed regulations after considering comments received from the December 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The final rule issued improves the program over the proposed rule in a number of areas including:

Creates a new Track 3, which includes higher rates of shared savings, the prospective assignment of . . .