The Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70 million in 2021 as the Biden administration plans a major overhaul to the value-based care program next year. Recently released data from the Centers ...

Cigna subsidiary CareAllies, which helps providers simplify and accelerate value-based care, will participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Global and Professional Direct ...

In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...

Organizations in a discontinued Medicare accountable care model saved the program $372 million in 2022, more than five times the prior year, according to recent data from the CMS. Direct contracting ...

Technology company Clover Health announced it will run its in-home primary care program, Clover Home Care, through CMS’ Direct Contracting Model. “The goal of Direct Contracting is to make the ...

More than 250 organizations sent a March 8 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra condemning its rebranding of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting model. The new model was announced by CMS ...

Innovative, value-based program will enhance care quality for Medicare beneficiaries, reduce administrative burden for primary care providers, and provide Equality Health with a glidepath to ACO REACH ...

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Representative Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., are spearheading an effort by lawmakers to compel the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to look at the ACO ...