CMS and NAACOS Highlight New MSSP Data in Totally Contrasting Ways

On Friday, January 10, Seema Verma, Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published an article in the Health Affairs Blog, touting new data around the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for accountable care organizations (ACOs). But on the same day, the Washington, D.C.-based NAACOS—the National Association of ACOs)—issued a press release that, while using essentially the same core set of data describing outcomes in Performance Year 2020 for the program, came to very, very different conclusions.