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According to the agency, 29,286 test claims were received and 25,646 test claims were accepted, marking an 87 percent acceptance rate.

While many accountable care organizations in Medicare's Shared Savings Program generated enough savings in 2014 to merit financial incentives, more than two-thirds fell below the payment threshold, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday.

Nine ACOs that partner with CHS generated $27 million in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Two Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations, Montefiore Health and the Banner Health Network, on Tuesday touted their success in generating savings for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ACO model. Though other organizations in the group found little reason to celebrate.

Amputees against proposed changes to Medicare coverage that would result in less expensive, but inferior, prosthetics being given to patients gathered in Baltimore Wednesday to ask officials to strike down the proposal.

William Rogers, MD, director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will act as ICD-10 ombudsman to the federal agency, acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt announced Thursday.

Amputees against proposed changes to Medicare coverage that would result in less expensive, but inferior, prosthetics being given to patients gathered in Baltimore Wednesday to ask officials to strike down the proposal.

The vast majority leave their contributions in savings accounts instead where the money may earn lower returns.

Another Pioneer ACO participant, Beacon Health in Maine, is considering exiting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program after being hit with millions in penalties two years in a row.

For many healthcare providers, this shift from fee-for-service payments requires a number of strategic and systemic changes that, even if implemented efficiently, could put stress on their revenue cycles.