Jun 13, 2025 · The AAFP supports the ACO model, and promotes benchmarks, information systems, and payment regulations that protect both patients and family physicians.

Learn about accountable care organizations and how they empower family physicians to manage quality care for patients.

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 …

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 …

Learn about Advanced Alternative Payment Models (AAPMs), one of the two new payment tracks created under MACRA.

Family physicians can learn more about the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, which provides new alternative payment models for primary care physicians.

For example, the risk-adjustment methodology used for the High Needs Population ACOs in ACO REACH uses a concurrent model, where current-year diagnoses are used to risk adjust.

Review a new set of codes that pay for resources associated with providing advanced primary care to patients.

Turning HCCs into risk scores CMS calculates a risk score, or “risk adjustment factor” (RAF) score, for each individual beneficiary and provides this information to each ACO quarterly.

For example, higher scores can trigger the referral of a patient for case management in an accountable care organization (ACO) or help to identify candidates for chronic care …