Hospitals Threaten ACA Savings by Exiting Program

[Duaine]

(Bloomberg) — Almost a third of 32 hospitals and health systems involved in the accountable care organization experiment aimed at changing the way medical providers are paid may exit the program, a potential threat to the Affordable Care Act’s ambitious cost-saving goals.

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[somarco]

Congress wants to balance the books on the backs of providers and beneficiaries by cost shifting (and risk shifting).

Won't work.