Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News               October 2018  
     
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  “CMS’s calculation method implicitly makes it difficult for ACOs to show progress, since savings are benchmarked against administratively derived targets. Who came up with that method, anyway???”
- Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics.
 
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“The MSSP generated 2013-to-2015 gross savings of $1.84 billion for Medicare, nearly double the $954 million estimated by CMS, and $541.7 million in net savings, contrasting with CMS’s claims that ACOs increased Medicare spending by $344 million over the three-year time span.”

Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Volume 9 Number 10, Octber 2018, "NAACOS Responds to CMS Snarkiness With Revealing Data."

 
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  Theresa Hush: 3 action steps to help ensure a sound growth strategy for ACOs

1. Make Loyalty and Retention for Current ACO Patients a Top Priority
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Source: Roji Intel Blog, October 10, 2018
 
     
 
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