Southeastern Health Partners selected Blake Allison to serve as CEO, according to a GoUpstate.com report.  By Anuja Vaidya - 4/20/18

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare and Walmart are teaming up on an ACO for Walmart employees based in the metro Atlanta area, as well as a bundled payment program for spine surgeries and joint replacement surgeries.  By Emily Rappleye - 4/19/18

Physician Organization of Michigan in Ann Arbor ranked No. 1 in the nation's 30 largest ACOs by number of facilities, according to a report published by IQVIA.  By Ayla Ellison - 4/17/18

For most accountable care organizations, the near future increasingly includes downside risk — which might catch some ACO’s off guard. By Brooke Murphy - 3/30/18

Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs increased federal spending by $384 million, despite the Congressional Budget Office's prediction they would generate $1.7 billion in net savings from 2013 to 2016, according to recent Avalere research.  By Morgan Haefner - 3/30/18

Part 1: Put the Background-Foreground Approach to work to improve care quality and decrease cost  By Ronda Hefton, RN, BSN, MBA - 3/22/18

Arizona Care Network, an ACO based in Phoenix, is piloting Solve.Care's blockchain technology, cloud computing and cognitive learning capabilities to improve healthcare delivery and reduce administrative burdens, the organization announced March 1.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/19/18

While there are 800 to 1,000 ACOs operating in the U.S., available performance data of Medicare ACOs shows few will accept downside risk and "are incapable of cutting costs," Kip Sullivan, JD, a Minnesota policy expert, wrote in The Health Care Blog.  By Morgan Haefner - 3/2/18

Aledade, a value-based care network operating ACOs across 18 states, will coordinate care for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's commercially insured and Medicare Advantage members.  By Morgan Haefner - 2/27/18

Accountable Care Organizations play a significant role in the US healthcare system when it comes to providing value-based care.  By Abhinav Shashank, Co-founder and CEO, Innovaccer Inc - 2/16/18

With last month's addition of 17 new organizations to the Next Generation ACO program, 26% of all Medicare ACOs now participate in a downside-risk model (including the Medicare Shared Savings Program's (MSSP) Track 1+, Track 2, and Track 3), up from 17% in 2017.  By Hunter Sinclair and Rebecca Nolan, Advisory Board - 2/2/18

Cleveland Clinic Medicare ACO will shoulder more downside risk after becoming a Track 1+ ACO this year.  By Morgan Haefner - 2/2/18

Hartford, Conn.-based Trinity Health of New England and Aetna rolled out an enhanced accountable care product.  By Morgan Haefner - 1/31/18

Phoenix-based Arizona Care Network, a physician-led ACO with 5,000-plus clinicians, launched joint health plans with Cigna.  By Morgan Haefner - 1/31/18

There are 58 ACOs in CMS' Next Generation model for 2018, including 17 new participants, CMS data shows.  By Morgan Haefner - 1/24/18

Medicare ACOs would have earned $966 million in additional net payments from participating in advanced alternative payment models in 2016, updated Avalere data revealed.  By Morgan Haefner - 1/18/18

The success of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) depends in part on how well providers are able to share pertinent information about their patients.  By Len Levine - 1/18/18

Each year, CMS publishes a brief, two-page report on the Medicare Shared Savings Program, its largest accountable care organization initiative. The report includes various statistics on the size and performance of the program, as well as a map showing the size of the ACO assigned beneficiary population by county. By Ken Perez, Vice President of Healthcare Policy, Omnicell, Inc. - 1/17/18

The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the U.S. is increasing each year, and participation rose once again in 2018.  By Anna Loengard, Chief Medical Officer, Caravan Health - 1/16/18

Aledade partnered with Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah to expand Aledade's Utah ACO.  By Morgan Haefner - 1/11/18