Becker's Healthcare October 21, 2019
ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are increasingly moving toward downside financial risk through value-based contracts, according to a Health Affairs blog.
The blog — written by researchers from Washington, D.C.-based Duke University and Leavitt Partners, a healthcare intelligence business — summarizes CMS enrollment data and Torch Insight ACO tracking data. Torch Insight is a healthcare database from Leavitt.
Researchers found only five out of 220 ACOs (2 percent) took downside risk in the first performance year of the MSSP, which began in 2012. That’s up to about 30...
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