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Darrin Menard, M.D., medical director of the Louisiana Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Enhanced ACO, recently described how his accountable care organization has evolved to become more successful in the program.
Menard, a practicing family medicine physician in Scott, Louisiana, was speaking at a Primary Care Collaborative event focused on their new report, “Primary Care: the MVP of MSSP.”
The report – written in partnership with the AAFP Robert Graham Center and Simple Healthcare – found that ACOs with more than 50 percent of physicians engaged in primary care consistently outperformed those with less than a majority of primary care physicians.
The research also found that primary care-centric ACOs were more likely to lower costs and earn back savings through MSSP, generating 2.4 times as many savings other ACOs over a six-year period.