Healthcare Innovation November 16, 2020
A team of health policy researchers argues that federal health policy leaders need to rethink the MSSP Program in order to optimize incentives in the program and improve the chances of participating ACOs’ success
A team of health policy researchers is arguing that, in order to optimize the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), policy leaders need to think in more complex, nuanced ways about the framework and goals of the program for accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Writing in the Health Affairs Blog, Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., and Alice Chen, Ph.D. published an analytical article on November 13 entitled “Understanding The Latest ACO ‘Savings’: Curb Your Enthusiasm And Sharpen Your Pencils—Part 2.” In that article, the researchers state that, “To achieve...