Health Affairs

The final rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) changed the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) outlined in the proposed regulations in several respects: fewer quality and performance measures, reduced financial risk, and greater potential financial gain, just to name a few.  These were all amended from the proposed regulation in order to make the MSSP... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s note: This post, by Joe Miller, is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rules and guidelines implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies.  You can read other posts in the series by Mark McClellan and... Read the rest of this entry »