Changes in spending, utilization, and quality of care among Medicare accountable care organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Brandon W Yan, Maya Shashoua and Jose F Figueroa

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: The COVID pandemic disrupted health care spending and utilization, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Medicare’s largest value-based payment model with 11.2 million assigned beneficiaries, was no exception. Despite COVID, the 513 accountable care organizations (ACO) in MSSP returned a program record $1.9 billion in net savings to Medicare in 2020. To understand the extent of COVID’s impact on MSSP cost and quality, we describe how ACO spending changed in 2020 and further analyze changes in measured quality and utilization. We found that non-COVID per capita spending in MSSP fell by 8.3 percent from $11,496 to $10,537 (95% confidence interval(CI),-1,223.8 to-695.4, p

Date: 2022
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