Healthcare Innovation December 9, 2022
Evaluation finds that the Model almost halved the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes experiencing poor HbA1c control
The second evaluation report on Vermont’s All-Payer ACO Model (VTAPM) Agreement found that although the pandemic and a cyberattack on the University of Vermont Health System posed unique challenges in 2020, the Medicare ACO initiative continued to reduce spending and utilization in payment year 3 relative to a comparison group. The initiative also continued to see progress toward population health improvement goals.
The ACO model is a five-year (2018-2022) arrangement between Vermont and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that allows Medicare to join Medicaid and commercial insurers to pay differently for healthcare. The goal is to test whether scaling...
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