The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets hospitals and other healthcare providers create or join an ACO. An ACO aims to provide coordinated, high quality healthcare to Medicare enrollees while ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved $2.4 billion in 2024, according to data released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The Medicare Shared Savings Program saved over $2.1 billion in 2023, enhancing care quality through ACOs. ACOs showed significant improvements in quality measures, including diabetes control, cancer ...

Accountable care organizations saved Medicare $2.1 billion, the largest yearly savings in program history, in 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed Tuesday. The results ...

Historical benchmarking created “selection on slopes,” structurally favoring inefficient ACOs with more reducible spending and limiting reward potential for efficient organizations nearing a spending ...

Shared savings and gainsharing are two ways to align providers’ interests to decrease healthcare costs as the healthcare industry transition from volume to value. Gainsharing is the direct payment by ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) launched its Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”) in 2012, CMS leveraged the upside, risk only-design and the opportunity to be a care ...

Medicare’s largest shared savings program is boasting the highest savings for accountable care organizations and the government since it began more than one decade ago. The Medicare Shared Savings ...

Medicare’s largest value-based care program saved the government more than $2.1 billion last year — an all-time record, according to the CMS. Accountable care organizations, groups of providers that ...

Groups of doctors and hospitals that serve Medicare patients in New York are set to take in a $407 million payout for their efforts to cut federal health costs, a Crain’s data analysis shows. The 35 ...