The CMS' Pioneer accountable care organizations are reducing the number of services they provide to patients that have minimal clinical benefit, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine found.
The results suggest that the ACO [1] program is having its intended effect. By changing the incentives for how healthcare services are reimbursed, the CMS is pushing providers to change the way they practice medicine.
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September 21, 2015
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