Summary of the ACO Investment Model AIM is an initiative developed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) designed for organizations participating as ACOs in the Shared Savings Program. ![]() The Shared Savings Program provides financial incentives for ACOs to lower growth in health care costs while meeting performance standards on quality of care and putting Medicare beneficiaries first. This fact sheet provides a general description of AIM, an ACO model being offered to support Shared Savings Program ACOs. Comprehensive End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Care Initiative.Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program).Medicare currently offers several ACO initiatives: When an ACO succeeds in both delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars more wisely, it will share in the savings it achieves for the Medicare program. ![]() The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially people with chronic conditions, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.ĪCOs represent one part of a comprehensive series of initiatives in the Affordable Care Act that are designed to lower costs and improve care. Overview Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to provide coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients to help them deliver better care at lower cost. ![]() Accountable Care Organization Investment Model (AIM)
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