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Farzad Mostashari Profile picture
@Farzad_MD
Oct 19, 2017 • 5 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Here are the 2016 #MSSP #ACO results you’ve been waiting for. Results are very different for physician-only

#Physician_Led_ACOs_Kick_Butt
Sometimes the rainbows and unicorns are right in front of you
@amitabhchandra2 @Michael_Chernew @C_Garthwaite @JMichaelMcW
…And these #ACO savings are in the context of super-low per capita Medicare national inflation of about 1% per year @porszag
These #MSSP #ACO results are *despite* a risk adjustment approach that (unlike every other risk contract) is capped, hurt over 1/2 of ACOs
Did #MSSP #ACO savings come at the expense of patients?
Nope!
More prevention
Quality up
Hospitalizations down

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Farzad Mostashari Profile picture
Aug 30, 2018
1/ 2017 #MSSP #ACO Results!
ACOs have scaled rapidly across the country!

In aggregate, the 472 ACOs were accountable for nearly 9 million Medicare beneficiaries and $95 Billion- that's a quarter of all fee for service, and almost half of the entire Medicare Advantage market.
2/ If you add up all the actual costs versus benchmarks, these 472 ACOs were collectively $1.1B under their benchmarks (more on whether that's the right counterfactual later).

Medicare shared $780 million in payments with the ACOs, netting the taxpayer $313M
But wait!

There's lots of evidence that the benchmark under-estimates the savings produced. @JMichaelMcW et al have shown convincingly that a true "difference in difference" approach would show substantially higher net impact.

The green eyeshades folks at CMS OACT said add 60%
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Jul 26, 2018
It's strange that everyone on health policy twitter is not going apes over the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (#OPPS) rule released today

It contains one hugely significant proposal that hospitals will fight bitterly...but could actually help them in the long run
Background- there are two different CMS payment systems for historic/operational reasons, one for professional services, and the other for hospital outpatient depts.

Up until now, there had never been an effort to make sure that equivalent services would have same payment rate.
In fact, the same procedure paid for in hospital OPD setting ended up being reimbursed at a much higher rate than the exact same procedure at a doctor’s office.

Here’s how @MartinSGaynor and Paul Ginsburg and I described it in our “Making Markets Work” White Paper
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Apr 25, 2018
1/ A little bit of history here…

When I was national coordinator for health IT, we did an RFI with CMS for “Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange"

federalregister.gov/documents/2013…
2/ If you’re a student of this stuff, it’s pretty topical- including a section on patient-centered information exchange on promoting #BlueButton - including through Medicare Advantage, … which is now on the verge of becoming a reality
3/ Another idea I was pretty excited about was using inpatient/post-acute Conditions of Participation as a vehicle for getting information sharing - on the argument that it really is a basic health and safety requirement
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Mar 6, 2018
1/ There was a very important speech today by @SecAzar today at the @FedAmerHospital that I'm going to annotate for you.

Anyone who’s been waiting for a clear declaration of this Administrations beliefs and intentions re #ValueBasedCare - here it is

hhs.gov/about/leadersh…
2/ @SGottliebFDA is killing it at @US_FDA
and everyone loves @NIHDirector precision medicine stuff
who's to say @SeemaCMS can't make delivery reform happen faster?

---->"This is no time to be timid"
(translation, some people aren't going to like this, and we don't really care)
3/ Our spending on Medicare and Medicaid has tripled since I was last at the Humphreys Building, and while I understand that sounds fantastic to all you hospital folks, I assure you, we're not happy about it.
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