Salt Lake City, June 3, 2019— Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have potential to care for the nation’s seriously ill patients at lower costs and improved quality, but few are taking steps to do so, according to new research  conducted by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Leavitt Partners. The research appears today in June […]

Salt Lake City, May 22, 2019—Today, Leavitt Partners released a white paper titled “No Evidence That ACO-Affiliated Hospitals are Narrowing Their PAC Networks.” This white paper details the findings from an analysis of Medicare claims data that was compared with Accountable Care Organization (ACO) affiliation data from Torch Insight™, a proprietary analytics platform and compendium […]

Salt Lake City, May 6, 2019—In new research published today in Health Affairs, authors from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Leavitt Partners studied factors that determine whether accountable care organizations (ACOs) thrive or exit Medicare flagship’s alternative to fee-for-service, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The study looked at 624 ACOs that have […]

Revcycle Intelligence posted “3 Strategies to Help Accountable Care Organizations Boost Savings,” highlighting research from Leavitt Partners and the Duke-Margolis Center regarding ACO case studies.  View the article here.

Digital Journal posted “Remarkable Growth of Pharmaceutical Distribution Network to Upsurge the Position of Global Biopharmaceutical Third Party Logistics,” highlighting the Pharmaceutical Distribution Security Alliance (PDSA) and its proposed system for Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) governance.  View the article here.

Becker’s Healthcare posted “Texas Launches Statewide ACO,” highlighting key findings from a Leavitt Partners report, in partnership with the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative, which tracked the growth and spread of ACOs. The report covered topics related to contracting, patient populations, geographic dispersion, and policy implications of ACOs. View the article here.