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Friday, January 31, 2014

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.