More than two-thirds of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program earned shared savings in 2020, according to a report in Modern Healthcare. Among ACOs in models with downside risk, 88% earned performance payments versus 55% of ACOs in one-sided risk models that got performance payments, the news magazine noted. In its announcement, CMS said ACOs in the shared-savings program earned almost $2.3 billion in bonuses and saved taxpayers about $1.9 billion last year, the fourth consecutive year of net savings for Medicare.
