RamaOnHealthcare November 30, 2016
Salt Lake City, November 30, 2016 – Today, Leavitt Partners released the “Accountable Care Organizations and Risk-Based Payment Arrangements: Strong Preference for Upside-Only Contracts” white paper, which analyzes the level of risk different types of accountable care organizations (ACOs) are assuming in their value-based care payment arrangements. The ACO organization type-level analysis can help entities understand how like-ACOs are taking on risk, and can also influence the risk contract structure of public and private accountable care programs.
One of the core tenets of today’s era of health care payment and delivery reform is that fee-for-service (FFS) inadequately controls costs and does not incentivize high quality care. Value-based payment (VBP) models, like the accountable care model, align payments with provider performance...