The forthcoming ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model makes several advances required for promoting equity through payment model design. This provides a foundation for ...

Through a new partnership, MetroHealth and CHC: Creating Healthier Communities plan to document MetroHealth's approach to integrated health equity and offer it as a model for hospital systems, ...

As a population-based model, AHEAD includes a number of positive elements in its proposed equity strategy. The ability to achieve its goal of addressing disparities will depend in part on ...

On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its redesign of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC), which now will be called the ...

One model will be in and another two out as CMS and the Biden-Harris Administration seek to shape a health-equity-informed model of accountable care. On February 24, ...

Social, economic, and geographic disadvantages create significant disparities in healthcare, such as lower quality of care and lesser health outcomes. To help improve these issues, the Centers for ...

Southwestern Health Resources ACO was drawn to the new model in part because it focuses on health equity, said Christy Cawthon, the ACO's vice president of medical economics.

New legislation in the House and Senate aims to increase the role of health equity in the development of value-based payment models, including a demand that the Biden administration create a model ...

The redesigned model, called the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health Model—or ACO REACH—includes new health equity requirements, changes to risk adjustment and additional ...

For example, Cityblock improved 2022 utilization as just reported in its Equity In Action analysis, including: . 20% of ER visits prevented for members seen by the Mobile Integrated Care team ...

Health equity means providing all people with patient-centered care that's built on trust, empathy and understanding. Fulfilling that vision, however, is often difficult.

Many health system leaders are developing health equity plans to participate in new value-based care payment models. The new ACO REACH payment model from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...