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Cigna subsidiary CareAllies, which helps providers simplify and accelerate value-based care, will participate in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model in an effort to contract with healthcare providers to offer coordinated, value-based care to Medicare beneficiaries. This, said Cigna, would expand CareAllies'

/PRNewswire/ -- The Community Care Alliance (CCA), an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that serves rural Colorado, announced today it is partnering with...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Community Care Alliance (CCA), an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that serves rural Colorado, announced today it is partnering with...

Healthcare

Foreign policy dominated the conversation in Washington, DC, as Russia invaded and launched attacks on Ukraine, and the U.S. and other nations responded with a series of sanctions against Russia. These events will likely shift the focus of official Washington.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has redesigned its Medicare Direct Contracting Model to an Accountable Care Organization model focused on health equity. The ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model will replace the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model at the end of the year. The new ACO REACH Model will require all

Participants in current GPDC Direct Contracting must meet new equity and governance requirements

The program constitutes a "backdoor privatization of Medicare," said one progressive advocate.

The new ACO model will incorporate health equity requirements, make changes to risk adjustment policies and more.

While we can’t pretend that Direct Contracting is going to solve all of our problems, it does provide consideration for Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices, through which physicians can operate outside today’s insurance-based payment model.