Fierce Healthcare January 22, 2020
Robert King

An analysis from Avalere found that 37% of ACOs are now on downside risk, a major increase over the past three years.

A new analysis found that 37% of accountable care organizations take on downside financial risk, as the Trump administration’s push for providers take on more risk makes an impact.

The consulting firm Avalere Health’s analysis released Tuesday found that the number of ACOs taking on downside risk has grown by 20 percentage points from 2018 when 17% of ACOs took on risk. Avalere pegs the increase on experience and a push by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to get the organizations to adopt risk earlier.

“As ACOs realize they have more experience in the [Medicare]...

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