Later in the spring, however, Medicare saw an early ACO-related setback: some disagreement over the timing of the model’s pay-for-performance phase. Members of the Pioneer ACO program sent a letter to CMS, asking the agency to delay tying their pay to their performance on quality metrics and to reconsider the Pioneer program’s quality benchmarks.
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