Fierce Health Payers January 14, 2021
The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization program saved Medicare $559 million in 2019 as the program’s future remains in doubt.
The National Association of ACOs released an analysis on the model’s savings Wednesday. The group has been pressing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make permanent the program that calls on ACOs to take on more financial risk.
“These figures are impressive especially considering this data accounts for only 37 of the 41 Next Gen ACOs participating in 2019,” NAACOS said in a release Wednesday.
The figures were based on partial 2019 performance data released by CMS on Wednesday.
Next Gen ACOs also had an average quality score of 93.7 out of 100. After taking into account...