More Than Half of Healthcare Leaders See Shared Savings as Very Effective Strategy for ACOs

Fifty-five percent of opinion leaders think providing ACOs with shared savings payments will be a very or extremely effective strategy, according to a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

Meanwhile, 63 percent of the surveyed leaders in healthcare and healthcare policy believe providing a risk-adjusted capitation payment arrangement to ACOs will be very or extremely effective.

Seventy-three percent support using value-based benefit design, in which cost-sharing for individual services varies, based on established effectiveness and potential benefit of a treatment or service.

Seventy-three percent support basing rewards for salaried physicians on both quality and prudent resource-use.

Sixty-eight percent support use of reference pricing for services, in which payors cover a drug, device or service based on the lowest price of equally effective treatments.

Fifty-three percent of leaders support using tiered networks, in which premiums for enrollees vary based on the level of spending by hospitals, physicians and other providers they choose.

Seventy-one percent feel it is important for all payers to use the same basic method of rewarding providers.

Read the Commonwealth Fund survey of payments.

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