Findings on Insurance Detailed by Investigators at Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (The First Decade of Aco Model Evaluations In the Medicare Program: a Systematic Review): Insurance

2025 JUN 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Research findings on Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting from Baltimore, Maryland, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Health care providers participating in five accountable care organization (ACO) models designed, implemented, and evaluated by the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have cared for almost six million fee-for-service Medicare patients over the past decade.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, “This systematic review summarizes the features and performance of these ACO models, capturing five major themes arising from their evaluation reports: spending performance by ACO organization type; the role of management companies in ACO structure and performance; financial risk and ACO participation; clinician incentives, waivers, and payment mechanisms; and patient engagement with ACOs. In difference-in-differences analyses, these 214 ACOs lowered spending by an estimated $2.8 billion, or $316.9 million after accounting for shared savings payouts derived from benchmarks, with no evident decrements in quality of care.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “ACOs’ challenge in ongoing and future ACO models is to apply their accrued experience to reduce spending and improve quality within a fee-for-service payment system.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The First Decade of Aco Model Evaluations In the Medicare Program: a Systematic Review. Medical Care Research and Review, 2025. Medical Care Research and Review can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting David J. Nyweide, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Ctr Medicare & Medicaid Serv, Baltimore, MD 21244, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/10775587251325914. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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