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Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced final rules for a new program designed to encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers to coordinate their care. Created by the Affordable Care Act, these rules on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) add to the menu of options for providers looking to better coordinate care for patients and will make it easier for providers to deliver high quality care and use health care dollars more wisely.

These rules followed months of comment and soliciting feedback from stakeholders across the health care industry. Here’s what people are saying about the new rules.

Your doctors try hard to give you the best care possible, but it can be a challenge to get all the information they need to protect your health. For people with Medicare, this is particularly important because a significant number of people over age 65 and those with disabilities live with one or more chronic conditions. That is why I’m so pleased with the work we are doing with doctors and hospitals to find ways to improve care and reduce costs. When doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers are able to work together they provide better, more coordinated health care. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, they can do that by becoming an Accountable Care Organization (ACO).

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Flu activity is currently low, making this the perfect time to get vaccinated.

This week, you can expect to hear more from us about one of the most important goals of the health care law, the Affordable Care Act: taking down barriers so you can spend more time with your doctor, reducing costs and ensuring you get the best care. When you get the time you need to talk with your doctor and ask questions, you can work with your doctor and be as healthy as possible.

As we suspend work on implementing CLASS, we are recommitting ourselves to the ultimate goal of making sure Americans can get the long-term care they need, whether it’s a working-age mom with disabilities who needs daily support right now or a young man at his first job who wants to protect himself and his family against the possibility of huge long-term care costs in the future.