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Accountable-care organizations call for delay in new reporting requirements

Accountable-care organizations call for delay in new reporting requirements
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The nation s accountable care organizations sent a letter last week to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, urging the agency to delay certain changes to quality reporting requirements for value-based payments. Backed by large, national medical groups, the letter warned that rushed implementation of these changes could deter new organizations from joining the shared-savings program or even cause organizations to leave it.
Accountable care organizations are groups of hospitals, physicians and health centers that work to improve health outcomes while reducing cost. Organizations that achieve savings are entitled to share them with CMS, and those that incur losses have to chip in. ....

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A Monday report from The New York Times describing a growing rift between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state public health officials is the latest evidence of the governor’s close relationship with the state’s health care industry and hospitals. According to the article, Cuomo relied more heavily on private hospital executives than on state officials, such as Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health, in making plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. This, the Times reports, contributed to at least nine top health officials resigning, retiring or otherwise leaving the state Department of Health in recent months.
This is not the first time that Cuomo has listened to or relied on the politically connected health care industry leaders. When Cuomo announced his 14-person COVID-19 vaccine task force in September, it did not include a single epidemiologist and few public health experts. The task force did, however, include several influential leaders in the hospital industry ....

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