ACO Benchmarks

Changes to ACO Benchmarks proposed to ACOs   As an effort to further the success of ACOs and improvement in health care, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it wishes to move away from current ACO benchmarks. Instead of basing them on historical spending, they would like to analyze trends in regional fee-for-service costs. According to Andy Slavitt, current administrator for the CMS,“Medicare payments are …