MedPage Today January 21, 2019
–Beneficiaries who switch ACOs tend to cost Medicare more
Medicare’s accountable care organizations (ACOs) are helping the program save money, but they need some tweaking, members of the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission (MedPAC) said.
“I was actually pleased with the results, given the short time period ACOs have been in existence,” commission member Warner Thomas, of Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, said at a commission meeting here Friday. “I hope people feel like we’re heading in the right direction.”
The commissioners heard a report from MedPAC staff about a specific type of ACO within Medicare, known as the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Under that program, ACOs that achieve a cost of care below a defined benchmark are able to...
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