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Employing additional administrative staff, prioritizing care management, and building data analytics capacity were key strategies accountable care organizations (ACOs) implemented to participate in the Next Generation model, CMS recently reported.
The initial group of ACOs generated net savings of $62 million to Medicare while maintaining care quality, CMS reported in an evaluation of the model’s first performance year in 2016, performed by NORC at the University of Chicago.
The 18 Next Generation ACOs that treated over 477,000 beneficiaries decreased Medicare spending by $18.20 per beneficiary per month in 2016.