ACO’s quality score was 96.3 percent
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Cleveland Clinic’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) saved more than $42.2 million across 71,113 beneficiaries in 2016, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report for ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Results show Cleveland Clinic is able to share in the savings generated for Medicare due to exceeding quality and financial thresholds – demonstrating achievement of high-quality care and improving the value of the healthcare dollar.
“The ACO helps to unify our enterprise by bringing together primary care, specialty care and independent participating physicians,” said James Gutierrez, M.D., president and medical director of Cleveland Clinic ACO. “The care model is further enabled to manage our patient populations across the whole continuum of care. This validates the work we have done in recent years to provide outstanding quality of care while being better stewards of healthcare resources.”
Cleveland Clinic ACO’s $42.2 million savings in 2016 represents a 24.5 percent increase from 2015. The ACO will receive $19.9 million back in shared savings, a 19.8 percent increase over 2015. The number of shared beneficiaries increased by more than 6,500 and the health system’s quality score was 96.3 percent.
Medicare ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers who come together voluntarily to provide coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients. In 2016, there were 433 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs across the United States.
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