Leavitt Partners May 22, 2019
Today, Leavitt Partners released a white paper titled “No Evidence That ACO-Affiliated Hospitals are Narrowing Their PAC Networks.” This white paper details the findings from an analysis of Medicare claims data that was compared with Accountable Care Organization (ACO) affiliation data from Torch Insight™, a proprietary analytics platform and compendium of health care data. Hospitals affiliated with or owned by an ACO are financially incentivized to manage the health and health care costs of their defined populations. One potential means of reducing unnecessary costs is by referring patients to fewer, higher-quality post-acute care (PAC) facilities following hospitalization.
To understand whether existing market trends exhibit the implementation of this strategy for cost savings within risk-bearing arrangements, Leavitt Partners researchers examined whether...
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