Frier Levitt co-founding partner Daniel Frier was featured in a recent issue of Part B News, in an article titled, “Shared Savings Pushes Risk, But Experts Debate the Impact.” The article discusses recent significant changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and if these changes will draw new MSSP entrants to risk.
Daniel notes that these changes “should modestly accelerate migration to two-sided risk,” but that “the caps and BASIC-only constraint for ACOs below 5,000 in any benchmark year may dampen the upside.” The policies that CMS locked in last year remain the true motivators for new ACOs.
A supporter of the change, Daniel believes, “it makes it easier for primary care practices using BHI/CoCM to reach and maintain assignment thresholds; recognizes more holistic care patterns that increasingly drive visit volume; and improves attribution fidelity for integrated practices, which in turn improves benchmark accuracy and confidence in financial results.”
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