Fact Based List:

Mark B. McClellan, Ross White and S. Lawrence Kocot: Top Eight Medicare ACO Challenges

  1. Make technical adjustments to benchmarks and payments
  2. Transition to more person-based payments
  3. Increase beneficiary engagement
  4. Enhance and improve alignment of performance measures
  5. Enable better and more consistent supporting data
  6. Link to additional value-based payment reforms
  7. Develop bonus payments and other incentives to participate
  8. Support clinical transformation

Source: Brooking Institute/Up Front Blog, June 16, 2014
Source URL: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2014/06/16-cha...