Healthcare Innovation May 17, 2022
Even as the MSSP is weighed down by a complex combination of challenges, providers are moving forward robustly in developing more flexible ACO terms in contracting with private health plans
Even as a complex combination of challenges is bedeviling the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the private health plans contracting with hospitals, medical groups, and health systems in non-government-sponsored accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other contracts, are zooming ahead to “let a thousand flowers bloom,” as the saying goes. As a result, the landscape of value-based care, as unsettled as ever, might be shifting in some key ways.
What exactly is going on? Well, under the previous administration, Seema Verma, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...