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A growing number of participants in CMS's Pioneer ACO program are dropping out of the program prior to the launch of the Next Generation ACO program, which will allow providers to be reimbursed for ...

Medicare’s Pioneer accountable care organization pilot program now dwindles to just 16 participants from the original 32, following the drop out of two more Boston-based ACOs: Steward Promise and ...

San Diego-based Sharp Healthcare, which was selected as a Medicare Pioneer accountable care organization in 2011, has left the Pioneer program after determining its ACO was at risk for “significant ...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will abandon the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, the system confirmed Tuesday, after losing more than $3 million over the past two years in the ...

"It’s a challenging program," Ken Perez, director of healthcare policy at MedeAnalytics, told Healthcare IT News in July 2013. The Pioneer model, he said, "just doesn’t generate the quick hits, the ...