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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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What
Are ACO's and How Can They Meaningfully Address the Social
Determinants of Health?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s) have become increasingly
prevalent in state Medicaid programs as a way to improve health
care quality, control high costs, and address the social
deter-minants of health as we have seen in Massachusetts. Using
Massachusetts as the primary case study, participants will be
able to understand how ACO’s are facilitating the coordination
of care for vulnerable populations through a public health and
prevention lens.
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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
2. Understand Characteristics of Your Existing Population and
What’s Next
3.
Continue reading here
Source:
Roji Intel Blog, October 10, 2018 |
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- NAACOS' Independent Study Refutes CMS'
Claims About MSSP Results
- Next-Gen ACOs Coalesce to Consumers 'Advance
Performance-Based Risk'
- NAACOS Responds to CMS Snarkiness With
Revealing Data
- Published Data, Opinions Point to Profitable
MSSP Performance
- Report: Global Quality Management Market to
Pass $6B by 2026
- Industry News with briefs regarding Aetna
and the Addiction Recovery Medical Home model.
- Roji Post: 'Leverage Price Transparency to
Create Value for Consumers'
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