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So to give you a sense of why that really diminishes the incentives, if you think about an aco increasing spending during a Contract Period, medicare shared savings program, aco for example that isnt facing any Downside Risk, they are penalized for doing that. And it increases their benchmark for the following Contract Period and then they can receive a shared savings bonus for doing nothing. Under the pioneer program, they are penalized for doing more, but again theres that offsetting effect by the benchmark going up and the subsequent Contract Period, so for pioneer acos the incentives are m...

We were able to cut down readmission rate dramatically and our emergency room rate dramatically. The only thing that went up in our database was primary care visits. Once again, not necessarily perfection but i think as a Clinical Study it was shown to be effective. And once again the reimbursement and the savings bears out that case. We also initiated some relatively interesting demonstration projects. We identified our congestive Heart Failure patients who were having problems with frequent readmissions. We did something very simple. We put scales in their house that automatically sent their...

Clinicians shouldn't have to navigate hundreds of different measures, Medicare director says

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