Providers Push Bonus-Only ACOs As CMS Encourages Two-Sided Risk

By John Wilkerson / February 25, 2015 at 8:31 PM
As CMS seeks to move providers into accountable care organizations that put penalties at risk, providers say the agency should instead encourage development of ACOs that only pay bonuses because few providers are yet interested in so-called two-sided risk models. The agency recently said it hopes to speed up efforts to put providers into value-based pay, such as so-called two-sided risk ACOs, but providers say CMS should first make sure it retains existing ACO participants and attracts new ones by...


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