“In Massachusetts, 17 Medicaid accountable care organizations (ACOs) are working to meet a June 1 deadline to submit a budget and high-level plan to the Commonwealth about how they will take advantage of new funding to support the restructuring of MassHealth’s delivery system to promote integrated, coordinated care and hold providers accountable for quality and MORE

“Critics of the proposal say it will harm low-income patients. “The plan stipulates that at least half of a state’s grant funding would be used to provide coverage for low-income populations,” said Rosemarie Day, a healthcare consultant in Somerville, Massachusetts, in an email. “This is far less than what the ACA’s funding is for low-income MORE

“Industry consultant Rosemarie Day, founder and president of Day Health Strategies LLC, tells AIS Health that plans “have to continue to do their strategic planning and look at all of these various scenarios,” including outright ACA repeal, even if it’s unlikely, since, as she puts it, “it’s almost like the uncertainty of all of this has become the certainty.” Yet in general she thinks MORE