Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) | AAFP The AAFP supports the ACO model, and promotes benchmarks, information systems, and payment regulations that protect both patients and family physicians
Accountable Care Organizations | AAFP Learn about accountable care organizations and how they empower family physicians to manage quality care for patients
ACOs: What to Know | AAFP An ACO can be almost any combination of group practices, networks of practices, hospitals, hospitals employing other physicians and clinicians, hospital-physician joint ventures, or virtual groups
Patient Attribution: Why It Matters More Than Ever - AAFP If you are participating in an Advanced APM such as a Medicare ACO or a patient-centered medical home, your Medicare patients will be attributed to you based on the attribution method used by the APM
Center for Medicare Medicaid Innovation | AAFP Family physicians can learn more about the Center for Medicare Medicaid Innovation, which provides new alternative payment models for primary care physicians
MIPS APMS - AAFP Information on Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Alternative Payment Models (APMs), or MIPS APMs, a subset of one of the two new payment tracks created under MACRA
PCMH and ACO: Opposed or Mutually Supportive? - AAFP And from the Brookings-Dartmouth web site: “The ACO approach also builds on current reform efforts that focus on one key group of providers, as in the medical-home model, or on a discrete