Staff Contact: Andrew Wheeler
CMS Innovation Center announced a new payment model for primary care, the ACO Primary Care Flex Model. The model would be part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program and will test whether “improved payment for primary care will empower participating ACOs and their primary care providers to utilize more innovative, team-based, person-centered and proactive approaches to care and positively impact health outcomes, quality and cost of care.” The ACO PC Flex Model application period opens May 2024, and the performance period would begin Jan. 1, 2025.