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With increased pressure from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to move from fee-for-service to value-based care reimbursement, more health care organizations are starting to consider alternative payment models and risk-based options. As of July 2019, there are 559 Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving more than 12.3 million beneficiaries, with hundreds more commercial and Medicaid ACOs serving millions of additional patients.