CMS risks ACO success by forcing move to another track
Like many accountable care organizations, Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) in Texas is building a record of success on the Medicare Shared Savings Program’s (MSSP) so-called “Track One.” Now looming, however, is an automatic transfer of ARC to the MSSP’s riskier “second track” after years of hard work implementing our value-based, population health treatment model.
On the first track, ARC and other ACOs assume “upside risk,” getting rewarded for taking on overall …
