The National Association of ACOs and the American Health Care Association on Wednesday (Feb 21) released a set of recommendations the groups say would increase long-term and post-acute care providers’ participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs). The groups focus on two overarching methods of improving SNF participation, including tweaking existing risk-based arrangements to accommodate SNFs and working episodic-based payments into broader ACO arrangements. They say CMS needs to create an ACO-based, voluntary, episode-based payment model designed for SNF providers...