ACO Watch August 30, 2016
Ashish K. Jha

Last week, CMS sent out press releases touting over $1 billion in savings fromAccountable Care Organizations.

Here’s the tweet from Andy Slavitt, the acting Administrator of CMS:

Andy Slavitt
✔@ASlavitt

NEW ACO RESULTS: physicians are changing care, w better results for patients & are saving money. Over $1B.https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-releases/2016-Press-releases-items/2016-08-25.html …

1:32 PM – 25 Aug 2016

The link in the tweet is to a press release. The link in the press release citing more details is to another press release. There’s little in the way of analysis or data about how ACOs did in 2015. So I decided to do a quick examination of...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, Health System / Hospital, HHS, MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations, Value Based
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