Workweek December 5, 2022
Today’s news round-up: CMS releases Direct Contracting results, Atrium and Advocate complete their merger, and athenahealth might IPO once again.
DIRECT CONTRACTING (DCE) SAVINGS RESULTS – 2021
On November 29, CMS published the results for the 53 entities participating in the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (DCE) program. After diving into the results (which you can find at the bottom of that linked page), here are some of the biggest takeaways:
- From a pure dollar perspective, Clover Health performed the worst in the DCE program, at a net savings rate of ($30.4M). That’s quite notable considering Clover was touting DCE growth throughout 2021, expecting its membership to zoom to 125,000 lives in 2022. With the onset of ACO REACH,...