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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) lowered Medicare spending by $755 million from 2013 to 2017, a new analysis found.
The analysis, released Tuesday by analytics firm Dobson, DaVanzo & Associates, comes as ACOs are working to meet new federal regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make them take on financial risk at a faster rate.
“Time and again, ACOs have proven superior to Medicare’s other value-based care initiatives,” said Clif Gaus, president and CEO of the National Association of ACOs, the industry’s top lobbying group that commissioned the study.