Leavitt Partners February 25, 2019
Today, Leavitt Partners released “Track Switching in Medicare ACO Programs: A Look at the Move to Downside Risk,” a white paper providing data-driven insight into the important characteristics distinguishing ACOs that progress to downside risk tracks from those that do not. The analysis in this paper draws on Leavitt Partners Insight’s analytics solution Torch Insight (“Torch”). Torch is a robust, market-centric data integration and analytics platform that delivers reliable, comprehensive and actionable healthcare insights.
Leavitt Partners defines track switching as when an ACO switches from the upside-only Track 1 to a higher risk track. The distinctions between track switchers and non-track switchers are particularly important in the current health care environment as the pressure to provide better quality care while...