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  "At a high level, the significant savings [from the ACO Investment Model] tell us ACOs can succeed without downside risk. The question to be answered in subsequent models like CHART is whether Medicare can find the right balance to continue encouraging and maintaining ACO participation because, in those first three years, everyone is benefiting."
-  Matthew Trombley, PhD, Senior Associate, Abt Associates
 

 
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In 2020, the average savings rate across ACOs was 3.7%, with 83% of ACOs reporting positive savings, and 37% having savings above 5%.

Source: Accountable Care News, Volume 13 Number 1, January 2022, "Milliman Analysis of MSSP ACO 2020 Gross Savings Rate Distribution."
 

 
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  Impact of ACO Affiliation on Antibiotic Prescribing for 5 Specialties: study

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internal medicine physicians: average decrease of 23.6 antibiotic prescriptions per year
2. family and general practice physicians: average decrease of 22.1 antibiotic prescriptions per year
3. nurse practitioners: average decrease of 7.1 antibiotic prescriptions per year
4. general surgeons: average decrease of 9.6 antibiotic prescriptions per year
5. orthopedic surgeons: average decrease of 8.1 antibiotic prescriptions per year

Notes: From an article entitled, "Accountable care organizations and physician antibiotic prescribing behavior," by Svetlana Beilfuss, Sebastian Linde and Brandon Norton.
 

Source: Social Science and Medicine via ScienceDirect, abstract only, published online January 8, 2022
 
 
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Insights
National Association of ACOs names 2022 new board members, officers
Becker's Hospital Review, January 18, 2022
     
  CMS Officials Make Statement on Health Equity, Referencing Value-Based Care
Healthcare Innovation, January 12, 2022
 
     
  What Morgan Health is doing to reinvent employer-sponsored health costs
MedCity News, January 11, 2022
 
     
  Older, Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Used Telehealth Less During Pandemic
mHealth Intelligence, December 28, 2021
 
     
What's News
  Growth in Health Information Exchange With ACO Market Penetration
The American Journal of Managed Care, January 20, 2022
 
     
  Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Accountable Care Organizations
The American Journal of Managed Care, January 20, 2022
 
     
  Shared Savings Model Risk in the MSSP Program
North American Actuarial Journal, published online January 14, 2022
 
     
  ACO Spending and Utilization Among Medicare Patients at the End of Life
Journal of General Internal Medicine, abstract only, January 12, 2022
 
     
  Accountable care organizations and physician antibiotic prescribing behavior
Social Science and Medicine via ScienceDirect, abstract only, February 2022
 
     
  Use of Preventive Care and Hospitalization in ACOs That Exited the MSSP
JAMA Health Forum, January 7, 2022
 
     
  ACOs and preventable hospitalization among patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's & Dementia, abstract only, December 31, 2021
 
     
  Implementation of cancer screening in rural PC practices after joining an ACO
Family Medicine and Community Health, December 22, 2021
 
     
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