Sirona Strategies Partner Kristen McGovern offered her insights in Provider Magazine’s Spring Issue addressing the need for value-based care models to cover older adults.

She shared, “the largest gap remaining is the permanent availability of an accountable care model for high-needs beneficiaries in long term care settings, as I-SNPs and Medicare Advantage will not be the right fit for every provider and beneficiary. This could look like a permanent ACO model that is designed after the ACO REACH High-Needs Track.”

And in closing noted, “Long term and post-acute care providers have been largely left out of the discussion around value-based care and post-acute care. Members should continue to elevate these priorities and highlight the important role they play in value-based care. To date, some of the most significant cost savings and care improvements realized by community-based ACOs and other episodic payment and delivery system reform models have been generated by intentional and targeted post-acute care partnerships.”