Claims / C-87WW5JPEHM
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The reverse test also has support, which makes attributability and the payer boundary complements rather than rivals. Holding payer and model roughly fixed (Medicare Shared Savings ACOs) and varying who internalises the saving, the Penn LDI white paper reports that physician-led ACOs produced greater savings than hospital-led ACOs by reducing hospitalisations, because hospital-led ACOs face lost admission revenue that wipes out the shared savings they earn, and so redirected their effort to post-acute spending instead. The boundary here is internal to one payer and sits at the provider, which generalises the mechanism in C-89NVR100VZ beyond national budget silos: outcome payment fails wherever the actor who must forgo revenue is not the actor who keeps the saving, independently of whether the avoided harm is attributable.
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Evaluations suggest that physician-led ACOs have produced greater savings than hospitalled ACOs by reducing hospitalizations, and these savings increase the longer participants remain in the program. Hospital-led ACOs face conflicting incentives: lost admission revenues wipe out the shared savings earned through reducing hospitalizations. Therefore, hospital-led ACOs have focused on reducing post-acute care spending.
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Method v5 section 5: I recorded this and never took a stance, so it has had no owner. Taking it rather than leaving it ownerless, and I answer for its falsifier and review trigger. Recorded 19 Oct on review of my own map.