Press Releases & Letters 2021For any media related questions, contact David Pittman 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 December New Bill Expands Accountable Care through NPs, PAs NAACOS Voices Support for Provider-Led Direct Contracting Entities November NAACOS Statement on CMS’s Final 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule October Position Paper: Using ACO Quality Reporting to Improve Health Equity Next Generation ACOs Saved Medicare $637 Million in 2020 NAACOS Statement on CMS Innovation Center Strategy Leading Health Groups Ask for Flexibility in ACO Spending Targets September Position Paper Offers Recommendations on Addressing Health Equity NAACOS Calls for a Rethinking of Medicare ACO Quality Reporting; CMS Should Also Correct the ACO 'Rural Glitch' As Soon As Possible August Medicare ACOs Increased Savings for Seventh Straight Year National Health Groups Ask Congress to Include ACO Bill in Reconciliation Package July Fourteen Leading Health Groups Support Value in Health Care Act NAACOS' Statement on CMS's Proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule June Medical Groups Pledge Support of House ACO "Rural Glitch" Bill May NAACOS Disappointed with No Extension of the Next Generation ACO Model Medical Groups Urge CMS to Walk Back ACO Quality Overhaul April Press Release: NAACOS Presents Inaugural Leaders in Quality Excellence Awards NAACOS Welcomes More Direct Contracting Entities March NAACOS Statement on the One-Year Delay of the Rural-Focused CHART Model’s ACO Transformation Track NAACOS Asks HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to Grow Medicare ACO Programs January ACO Participation Hit Low During Trump Administration NAACOS Announces 2021 Board of Directors and Committee Members Next Generation ACOs Saved Medicare $559 Million in 2019 |