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Accountable care organizations seeking to participate in the overhauled Medicare Shared Savings Program should expect a shorter period of time to begin to reap savings through their efforts to better manage their patient populations before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expects them to shoulder more risk.
So they’d better plan accordingly, according to a new report from healthcare consulting firm Leavitt Partners.
The overhauled MSSP program divides ACOs into two tracks based on Medicare revenue that determine how much time they have before they must take on additional financial risk.
In an analysis of Medicare data for 560 MSSP ACOs to estimate where they would fall in CMS’ new two-prong model, two out of three ACOs had the shorter window before they would be expected to take on greater risk.