Next Generation ACOs Form Coalition To Advance Performance-Based Risk

A group of 29 Next Generation accountable care organizations (ACOs) recently formed a new coalition for the advocacy of the Next Generation ACO program. The Next Generation ACO model is an initiative that allows ACOs to assume higher levels of financial risk and reward than are typically available to them.

Through the Next Gen ACO program, which was established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016, has helped numerous ACOs throughout the United States to improve care quality and improve health outcomes while lowering costs. The coalition plans to continue this by addressing issues with the . . .