Health Affairs October 21, 2019
David Muhlestein, William K. Bleser, Robert S. Saunders, Robert Richards, Elizabeth Singletary, Mark B. McClellan

In December 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a major overhaul of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) by finalizing Pathways to Success. This was one of the largest changes to the Medicare ACO program since its initiation, with the most visible change being the shorter timeframe for ACOs to transition to downside risk (and to higher levels of downside risk). Some ACOs left the program after the overhaul was finalized, but it was unclear how many ACOs would enter the program, due to a staggered timeline for exits and entrances this year during the transition.

This blog summarizes the recently released enrollment data for Medicare ACOs and updates some of our previous work on tracking...

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