Healthcare DIVE January 30, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

However, growth in Medicare’s flagship shared savings model has plateaued over the past five years.

Dive Brief:

  • Accountable care organizations in traditional Medicare are prospering, federal regulators said in new data released Monday. However, participation in Medicare’s largest value-based care program has stayed generally the same over the last five years.
  • Roughly 13.7 million Medicare patients this year — nearly half of beneficiaries on traditional Medicare — are in accountable care organizations, or ACOs, groups of providers that work together to coordinate patients’ care. That’s a 3% increase from 2023, the CMS said. Similarly, almost 817,000 providers are participating, compared with 700,000 last year.
  • Participation in ACOs is important since the organizations have been shown to create better outcomes...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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