Modern Healthcare January 18, 2018
A vast majority of accountable-care organizations in zero-risk contracts would reap additional savings if they took on downside risk because of the bonuses incurred as an advanced alternative payment model under MACRA, a new analysis finds.
About 91% of the ACOs in tracks without risk in 2016 would have saved an additional $966 million overall if they were in a contract with downside risk, according to an Avalere Health analysis released Thursday.
The analysis applied 2016 performance data for non-risk bearing ACOs to Track 1+, a downside risk-based contract introduced this year. Medicare ACO performance data is not yet available for 2017, and the analysis aims to show how non-risk bearing ACOs can perform under the newest model, said John...
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