Managed Healthcare Executive March 2, 2020
The March issue of Health Affairs is an extended 10th birthday card for the ACA, which was signed into law by President Obama on March 23. Be you a fan or detractor, or something in between, it sets the bar high for the all the coverage that the law’s ten-year anniversary on March 23 is going to generate.
The review of ACA’s value-based payment innovations (aka Alternative Payment Models) by Michael Chernew, Patrick Conway, and Austin Frakt is definitely worth your time.
Here are five takeaways:
ACOs are not a flop. But they are not a rip-roaring success, either.
Chernew et al cite one study that found that ACOs accomplished a total savings of 0.57%, once you take spillover effects...