AIM Model Application for ACOs

As listed in last week’s announcements, the ACO Investment Model (AIM) is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) initiative for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. One reason the AIM Model was developed was to encourage uptake of ACOs in rural areas with little ACO activity by offering pre-payment of shared savings and ongoing per beneficiary per month payments. The AIM Model application period for ACOs that will join the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2016 opens in the summer of 2015. See http://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/ACO-Investment-Model/ for further details on the AIM Model initiative.