STAT October 30, 2019
Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services makes a major announcement about how its Shared Savings Program saved three-quarters of a billion dollars last year alone and no one notices, did the savings really matter?
No prominent national business publication gave significant coverage to the late September announcement about the impressive savings from this value-based care program.
CMS shared the announcement through a short series of tweets and a paper in the journal Health Affairs by Seema Verma, the administrator of CMS. Coverage in trade publications was sparse. It was essentially a collective shrug about a government program that people were wringing their hands over just last year, one that health...