Modern Healthcare January 9, 2018
About 18% of accountable-care organizations in the Medicare shared savings program will participate in a downside risk contract in 2018, a jump from the just 9% of ACOs who took on risk last year, new CMS data shows.
There are 561 Medicare ACOs in the program this year and 101 are in a downside risk-based contract. The majority of those ACOs, 55, have joined Track 1+, the newest risk model that doesn’t require ACOs to take on as much financial risk as Tracks 2 or 3 of the program. The CMS introduced the track this year as a stepping stone for ACOs to take on potential financial losses gradually.
There are 8 ACOs in Track 2 and 38 ACOs in...
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