Medicare Shared Savings Program: Celebrating 10 Years and Looking Forward to the Future

May 17, 2022acoMedicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP

April marked the 10-year anniversary of the start of the agreement period for the first Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) – an ambitious program to reward health care providers for improving health care for people with Medicare. The program now includes 483 ACOs with over 525,000 participating…

ACO Groups Disappointed With Results for Medicare ‘Shared Savings’ Program

February 1, 2022acoACO, ACOs, CMS, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP

Are 66 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) in a year a sign of progress or a disappointing result? That depends on who you ask. CMS announced last week that 66 additional ACOs joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for ACOs in 2022, bringing the total up to 483 ACOs. However, that number is only…

Medicare Shared Savings ACO participation grows slightly for 2022

January 26, 2022acoaccountable care, ACOs, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP

More Medicare beneficiaries will receive care from providers in Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations this year, but the number is still lower than it was in 2020, new data show. Nearly 1 in 5 Medicare enrollees will be treated by Shared Savings Program ACO providers this year, a slight increase from 2021 but lower…

Downside Risk Pays Off: 4 Best Practices for High ACO Performance

October 19, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO performance, ACO success, ACOs, CMS, Data, data aggregation, Downside Risk, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, Patient Engagement, performance monitoring, population stratification, Risk

The Medicare Shared Savings Program, the accountable care organization (ACO) model that served 10.6 million seniors in 2020, collectively saved Medicare $4.1 billion last year, and $1.9 billion after accounting for shared savings payments, according to the National Association of ACOs and as recently published in Healthcare Finance. 513 ACOs participated in the Shared Savings Program in 2020, down…

Contributor: CMS Can Seize Opportunities to Fix the Rural Glitch, Risk Adjustment Caps in MSSP

October 10, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCMS, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, risk adjustment, rural glitch, rural health

In August, Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other leaders from CMS shared their priorities for the next 10 years. In particular, they called out the importance of reducing inequities in health care, striving to get all Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships, and designing financial incentives that will encourage participation in new payment and…

Advocate Aurora’s ACO Success Is Setting Up Value-Based Healthcare

October 4, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, Advocate Aurora, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, value-based care, value-based healthcare

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program had a record performance year in 2020. The ACOs saved Medicare $4.1 billion while achieving an average quality score of 97.8 percent. One of the health systems participating in the program—Advocate Aurora Health—led the nation in savings and quality. Advocate Aurora’s affiliated ACOs generated $110 million in…

Advocate Aurora Health CMO Dr. Gary Stuck Unpacks the System’s MSSP ACO Success

September 13, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAdvocate Aurora, Advocate Aurora Health, CMS, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP

On August 26, leaders at the Downers Grove, Illinois- and Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Advocate Aurora Health posted a press release to the organization’s website announcing breakthrough results on the part of the integrated health system’s three federal accountable care organizations (ACOs.) As the press release stated, “Data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show…

CMS Releases 2020 MSSP ACO Results, Marking Fourth Consecutive Year of Net Savings to Medicare

September 9, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, Medicare Shared Savings, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, net savings

On August 25, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2020 performance results for accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) – the agency’s cornerstone accountable care initiative. ACOs and value-based care advocates have been anxiously awaiting this latest MSSP data, given the significance of performance…

ACOs generated $4.1B in gross savings in 2020, nearly double 2019 amount

August 25, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACOs, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, savings

Accountable care organizations saved Medicare $4.1 billion in 2020 and nearly $2 billion after taking out shared savings, according to new federal data. The data, announced Wednesday by the National Association for Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS), are an improvement over the $2.6 billion in shared savings they generated in 2019 and $1.9 billion after taking…

NAACOS Leaders Document Major MSSP Savings, Support Pro-ACO Legislation in Congress

August 25, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACOs, alternative payment models, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, NAACOS

On Wednesday, Aug 25, leaders at the Washington, D.C.-based NAACOS—the National Association of ACOs—trumpeted the progress of accountable care organizations in saving money for the Medicare program, one day after joining eleven fellow national healthcare associations in pleading with members of Congress to include legislation supporting alternative payment model acceleration in upcoming federal legislation. On…

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