Health Systems May See More Savings With Medicare Advantage vs. Medicare ACOs

September 15

A new study published in JAMA Network Open raises questions about whether health systems can actually achieve significant savings through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), or if Medicare Advantage could be a better bet. To identify spending patterns in MA and MSSP’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), researchers studied the characteristics and claims data of about 16,000 Medicare patients at Ochsner Health System (OHS), a large, academic system in Louisiana, from 2014 to 2018. Ochsner joined MSSP in 2013, and its ACO hosts more than 2,200 providers. It also offers MA plans via a partnership with Humana Inc.

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Carina Belles

Carina has been covering public-sector health care since 2018. As a data reporter for Radar on Medicare Advantage, she creates infographics and data stories on issues impacting Medicare, Medicaid and Part D. She also develops AIS Health Daily, a free daily newsletter that showcases AIS’s strong reporting across our four publications and parent company Norstella’s suite of market access and data solutions. Prior to joining the editorial team, she managed Medicare and Medicaid data for the Directory of Health Plans, AIS’s industry-standard health coverage database. She graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in Journalism.