Medicare Patients Could See Benefits Under Proposed ACO Rules

Medicare Patients Could See Benefits Under Proposed ACO Rules
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington on March 14, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
Holly Kellum
By Holly Kellum, Washington Correspondent
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WASHINGTON—The average person probably hasn’t heard of an Accountable Care Organization, or ACO as it’s called in the health care world, but that could change if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changes how ACOs are governed.

ACOs are groups of health care providers, such as hospitals or physicians in private practices, that work together to meet certain health care savings and quality care goals for Medicare patients.

Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
Holly Kellum is a Washington correspondent for NTD. She has worked for NTD on and off since 2012.
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