Are you a provider considering taking risk on your Medicare Fee-for-Service population? As aggregator pitches, negotiations, and contracts ramp up, it's critical to understand what you’re signing up for.

In this quick-read guide, HSG outlines 10 key questions every provider should ask before entering into agreements with third-party aggregators. Whether you're new to value-based care or looking to strengthen your position, this checklist will help you make informed, strategic decisions that protect your organization and your patients.

The ACO REACH offering was billed as the first value-based offering from CMMI to explicitly support health equity–but our analysis shows that the tool used to measure social risk would shift resources away from dense, urban cities with high Black and Latino populations to largely rural areas in the South.