Association of Pathways to Success Launch With Quality inBeneficiaries With Traditional Medicare.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between implementation of "Pathways to Success" and quality among beneficiaries cared for in Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Study setting and design

Medicare initiated "Pathways to Success" in 2019 that required upside-risk only ACOs in Shared Savings Program to transition to a two-sided risk model and prior two-sided ACOs to assume even greater financial responsibility. We examined the association between Pathways and ACO-targeted (hospitalizations for congestive heart failure [CHF] and all-cause 30-day readmissions) and nontargeted (all-cause emergency department visits without hospitalization for CHF and hospital observation stays) quality measures, using a difference-in-differences framework.

Data so

SUBMITTER: Ying M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12932017 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature