Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
CMS Puts CHART ACO Transformation Model on Hold Until 2022
Rural providers now have another year to decide if joining a CHART Model Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is right for them. Background: In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started testing the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model to address equity issues in rural healthcare. CMS planned to provide $75 million in upfront seed funding to 15 rural communities as part of the Community Transformation Track (see Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement, Vol. 46, No. 19). Additionally, CMS intended to pick 20 “rurally-focused” ACOs with payment tied to value-based care and level of risk in the hopes of “improv[ing] outcomes” under the ACO Transformation Track, the CHART guidance suggests. Now: The Community Transformation Track is a go with the application deadline currently set at May 11, 2021. However, CMS has decided to delay the ACO Transformation Track, extending the deadline to spring 2022, the online guidance indicates. Review the CHART model changes at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/chart-model. 
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