Gist Healthcare November 17, 2023
In this week’s graphic, we showcase recent data from Health Affairs highlighting the progress made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) flagship value-based payment initiative, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Ten years into the program, a majority of MSSP accountable care organizations (ACOs) have now adopted downside risk, after a slow start that was accelerated by CMS’s 2018 Pathways to Success program update. With more ACOs in downside risk, over 60 percent of program participants received shared savings...