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NAACOS Responds to Senate HELP Committee's Request for Recommendations for Lowering Healthcare Costs
In response to a request for recommendations to help address rising drug costs, the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) has submitted comments to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
In response to a request for recommendations to help address rising drug costs, the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) has submitted comments to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. They recommend that Congress continue to ensure that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP remains strong and encourages robust participation, explaining that Medicare ACO programs like MSSP are the largest value-based payment models in the country and an essential tool in moving toward a value-based healthcare system.
NAACOS also recommended that Congress consider amendments to 42. C.F.R. Part 2, which requires patients to submit written consent prior to the disclosure of their substance use treatment records. According to NAACOS, these requirements are often challenging and they limit whole-person integrated care and care coordination. Read all the comments.
Bias Reduction, Better Access Key to COVID-19 Equity Gains
April 14th 2025Interventions that target enhancing health care equity among communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can be improved by including comprehensive needs assessments at the patient, provider, and health system levels.
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Politics vs Science: The Future of US Public Health
February 4th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, on the public health implications of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the role of public health leaders in advocating for science and health.
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Bridging Care Gaps With a Systemwide Value-Based Care Strategy
March 29th 2025Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transitions that continue among hospital, primary, specialty, and community care environments.
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