Clinician Specialties, Quality Score and Shared Savings Receipt in Accountable Care Organizations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the relationship between the changing Accountable Care Organizations-ACO workforce and ACOs' shared savings earnings and quality performance.

Data sources

Medicare Shared Savings Program-MSSP provider-level research identifiable files, performance year financial and quality report public use files, and National Physician Compare data (2013-2021).

Study setting and design

We characterized 865 MSSPs, separately pre- (2013-2019) and post-pandemic (2020-2021) according to the percentage of primary care physicians (PCPs), non-physicians, specialists, and other specialty, financial risk model, assigned Medicare beneficiary demographics, clinical risk factors, and provider supply by specialty within the MSSP's primary service state, (total and per-capita)

SUBMITTER: Ouayogode MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12857478 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature