Jun 13, 2025 · The AAFP supports the ACO model, and promotes benchmarks, information systems, and payment regulations that protect both patients and family physicians.

Learn about accountable care organizations and how they empower family physicians to manage quality care for patients.

An ACO can be almost any combination of group practices, networks of practices, hospitals, hospitals employing other physicians and clinicians, hospital-physician joint ventures, or virtual …

If you are participating in an Advanced APM such as a Medicare ACO or a patient-centered medical home, your Medicare patients will be attributed to you based on the attribution method …

Accountable care organizations could be the next big thing in health care delivery. Here's what you need to know – and what you need to do – now.

Learn about Advanced Alternative Payment Models (AAPMs), one of the two new payment tracks created under MACRA.

Family physicians can learn more about the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, which provides new alternative payment models for primary care physicians.

Review a new set of codes that pay for resources associated with providing advanced primary care to patients.

Family physicians can access more information about incentive, recognition, and accreditation programs related to the patient-centered medical home.

Turning HCCs into risk scores CMS calculates a risk score, or “risk adjustment factor” (RAF) score, for each individual beneficiary and provides this information to each ACO quarterly.