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 access more information about incentive, recognition, and accreditation programs related to the patient-centered medical home.

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

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.

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.

An Academy executive summary explains potential wins in the 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule and Quality Payment Program proposed rule.

• Patient assigned to ACO if he or she received at least one primary care service from ACO-affiliated specialist physician and a plurality of primary care from ACO-affiliated specialist …