RevCycle Intelligence October 22, 2019
The introduction of Pathways to Success may behind falling accountable care organization (ACO) participation numbers, according to researchers from Leavitt Partners and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University.
Using information pulled from Torch Insight, a healthcare database from Leavitt Partners Insight, the researchers reported in a new Health Affairs blogpost that there were 1,588 public and private ACO contracts covering nearly 44 million lives by the end of the third quarter of 2019. In comparison, there were 1,611 ACO contracts by that time the previous year.
The decline in number of ACO contracts is the first net decrease seen to-date, researchers emphasized.
The data showed that a decrease in the number of Medicare ACO contracts is to...
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