New ACO Playbook: Seven Keys To Expanding ACO Savings—And Market Share

October 6, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACO savings, ACOs, behavioral heath services, chronic disease, cost drivers, cost variations, market share, patient episode analytics, patient outcomes, Population Health, Risk, savings, specialty care models, treatments

At the beginning of this series, we laid out a basic tenet: As shared savings plan ACOs, you need to do as well or better at lowering costs than competing value-based payment models. Otherwise, your resources and support will dwindle in favor of more promising avenues to control Medicare spending, and competition will stifle your…

A New Elephant is in the ACO Waiting Room: It is Following the Money

August 18, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACO savings, ACOs, Medicare

Several years ago in the early days of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), we worried and warned about the importance of how each organization should divide up potential savings. In a white paper published in Physician Leadership Journal and on the Salient Web site, co-author Stephen Sheiko and I called it an “Elephant in the ACO…

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