Accountable Care Organizations savings are relatively small according to CMS

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/opinion/we-are-giving-ourselves-cancer.html?_r=0


http://lnkd.in/dju2XqQ #affordablecareact #physician #healthinsurance #medicare Numbers for ACO's from CMS show small savings. The average was $80 per year / per patient or $6.50 per month. The best performing ACO in the study was a Bronx, NY based Network that had been running like an ACO before the term was invented generating a savings of about $100 per year / per patient.

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    80% of the 220 State and Federal Exchanges are stalled or failing as federal funding dries up.  97% of insurance companies do not believe public exchanges are are viable.  Only 10 exchanges predicted to exist past 2017.  88% of physicians view insurers as being the group that can address the sharing of patient data.  If these numbers are true than we are looking at a collapse of the entire ACA system.  Insurers will look to the government for bailouts on costs incurred due to provisions in the ACA which raise costs.  Premiums will go up across the board.  People will once again be dropped from plans and have to find new care providers. Which will mean collected data that is utilized to improve outcomes will be lost or have to move to other private exchanges.   This is a fundamental problem with the ACA, while it's ideals are good for people, it is based upon a fundamentally flawed and failing business model.  Most of the time the "smartest people are outside of the room, not in the room."    This should be a wake up call to all healthcare consumers and healthcare providers.