Accountable Care Organizations

AMGA and its membership are invested in the success of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program. To ensure the program provides the proper incentives and framework to support providers who voluntarily join them, AMGA recommends that the Medicare Shared Savings Program be improved by instituting a number of reforms. These include synchronizing rules across each risk model so the regulatory framework is consistent, increasing the shared savings rate that is available, and improving the program’s benchmarking structure so that ACOs have a realistic opportunity earn savings.

Issue Brief

Accountable Care Organizations

CMS Correspondence

• AMGA Summary of Final ACO Benchmark Rule
  June 10, 2016
• AMGA Comments on Revised Benchmarking Methodology Proposed Rule
  March 28, 2016
• AMGA Comments on Medicare Shared Savings Proposed Rule
  February 06, 2015

Congressional Correspondence

• ACO Improvement Act of 2016
  July 13, 2016
• Letter from Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) to CMS regarding MSSP Proposed Rule
  February 06, 2015

Tools and Resources

• Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule: Summary of Key Provisions
  June 09, 2015