{"id":72,"date":"2011-03-30T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:15:28","slug":"a-summary-of-medicare-shared-savings-program-and-aco-proposed-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2011\/03\/30\/a-summary-of-medicare-shared-savings-program-and-aco-proposed-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summary of Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO Proposed Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid issued the long-awaited, proposed regulations for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including details of the requirements for qualifying as an accountable care organization (ACO), such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eligible legal entities<\/li>\n<li>Criteria for shared governance<\/li>\n<li>Assignment of beneficiaries to ACOs<\/li>\n<li>Different types of risk contracts<\/li>\n<li>Benchmarks and calculations of savings<\/li>\n<li>Shared savings, antitrust issues and policies, Medicare anti-kickback, and other regulatory requirements as applied to ACOs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full text of the summary is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/Medicare_Shared_Savings_Program_ACO_Regulations_4021.html\" target=\"_blank\">Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid issued the long-awaited, proposed regulations for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including details of the requirements for qualifying as an accountable care organization (ACO), such as: Eligible legal entities Criteria for shared governance Assignment of beneficiaries to ACOs Different types of risk contracts Benchmarks and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2011\/03\/30\/a-summary-of-medicare-shared-savings-program-and-aco-proposed-regulations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Summary of Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO Proposed Regulations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,41,54,7,31,9,10,32,20,55],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-aco","tag-anti-kickback","tag-antitrust","tag-cms","tag-hospitals-reform-updates","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-physicians-reform-updates","tag-reform-where-is-the-money","tag-shared-savings"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}