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Medicare Accountable Care Organizations: The Value Proposition Art Jones, MD
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HMA Experts
Dr. Art Jones, MD Principal Chicago
Lynne Fagnani Principal Washington, D.C.
Moderator Presenter
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Why Move from Fee-for-Service?
• We have decades of experience refining our system to successfully respond to this incentive
• Shifting to value shifts resources that could be generating visits
• Can revenue be sustained during efforts to shift from volume-based to value-based care?
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Medicare Shared Savings Plan (MSSP) ACOs Starting Date Number of ACOs
Pioneer ACOs
January 1, 2012 32
Medicare Shared Savings Plan (MSSP) ACOs
April 10, 2012 27
July 1, 2012 87
January 1, 2013 106
January 1, 2014 123
Subtotal 343
TOTAL 375
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Premier Hospital and Health System Member Survey Fall 2013 on MSSP ACOs
Implementation Schedule Percent of 454 respondents
In place 26.6%
In place by end of 2013 7.2%
In place by end of 2014 21.0%
In place by end of 2015 10.6%
No plan for MSSP ACO 23.1%
No response 11.5%
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Practice Transformation without a
financial model is not
sustainable.
Low Accountability
Moderate Accountability
Acco
unta
bilit
y
Financial Risk
Continuum of Risk-Based Contracting
High Accountability
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Practice Redesign or Payment Reform
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Transition to Value-Based Care
Aligned Payment Transformation
Prac
tice
Tran
sfor
mat
ion
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Successful Transformation to Accountable Care will Require
1. Clinical integration 2. Data analytics and connectivity 3. Targeted and innovative model of care 4. Multi-payer outcomes-based payments 5. Patient engagement/wellness programs 6. Leadership committed to practice
transformation 7. Financial investment with a long-term
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Factors in Determining Financial Outcome
• Beneficiary assignment
• Establishing the benchmark
• Updating the benchmark
• Calculation of shared savings and losses
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Attribution to an ACO • If the beneficiary receives the plurality of his or
her primary care services from primary care physicians within the ACO (A plurality means a greater proportion of primary care services as measured in allowed charges).
• For beneficiaries who have not received a primary care service from a primary care physician, if the beneficiary receives the plurality of his or her primary care services from other ACO professionals within the ACO, including: non-primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and physician assistants.
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Benchmark Spend • Risk adjusted average per capita spend of
Parts A and B • Trend forward based on national growth
rate and change in HCC scores • Weighting of 3 calendar year experience
– First year 10%
– Second year 30%
– Third year 60%
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Benchmark Spend • Separate calculations for population groups
– End stage renal disease
– Disabled
– Aged/dual eligible
– Aged/non-dual eligible
• Truncate annualized expenditures above the 99th percentile for each population group
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Benchmark Spend • Single per capita spend (blended score)
– Blended enrollment type – By weighting fraction of year enrolled in each
type
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Benchmark Spend Annual Adjustment • For continuously enrolled beneficiaries
– HCC prospective risk score change – Demographic score – If overall risk score > benchmark, increase by
demographic score – If overall risk score < benchmark, apply the HCC
ratio as well • For newly assigned populations
– HCC prospective risk score and demographic score • Flat dollar amount for growth in national
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MSSP Shared Savings Options
• Track 1 shared savings only model (one-sided model)
• Track 2 shared savings and losses model (two-sided model)
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Calculating Shared Savings and Losses Track 1 Track 2
MSR 2 -3.9% based on membership 2% fixed
Maximum upside share
50% of difference between actual and benchmark
60% of difference
Upside cap 10% of benchmark spend 15% of benchmark spend
Downside MLR N/A 2%
Maximum downside risk
N/A 60% of difference between actual and benchmark
Downside cap year one
N/A 5% of benchmark spend
Year two N/A 7.5% of benchmark spend
Year three N/A 10% of benchmark spend
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Minimum Savings Rates Beneficiaries Minimum Savings Rate
(HIGH END TO LOW END)
5000-5999 3.9-3.6
6000-6999 3.6-3.4
7000-7999 3.4-3.2
8000-8999 3.2-3.1
9000-9999 3.1-3.0
10000-14999 3.0-2.7
15000-19999 2.7-2.5
20000-49999 2.5-2.2
50000-59999 2.2-2.0
60000+ 2.0
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Monitoring Progress • Quarterly:
– First Friday of the month following the quarter (completion factor)
– Prospective assignment
• Annual: – Last day of a 3-month claims run out period
(completion factor)
– Retrospective assignment
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Projected Revenue (hypothetical; varies by benchmark cost)
Savings Total dollars 5,000 members
Total dollars 10,000 members
PMPM *10,000 membership only
1% 0 0 0
2% 0 0 0
3% 0 $2,150,666 $16.90*
4% $1,351,600 $2,867,555 $22.53
5% $1,689,500 $3,584,443 $28.16
6% $2,027,400 $4,301,332 $33.79
7% $2,365,300 $5,018,220 $39.42
8% $2,703,200 $5,735,109 $45.05
9% $3,041,100 $6,451,998 $50.69
10% $3,379,000 $7,168,886 $56.32
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33 Quality of Care Measures in 4 Domains Each domain weighted 25%
• Patient/caregiver experience (7) • Care coordination/patient safety (6) • Preventive health (8) • At-risk population (12):
– Diabetes (6) – Hypertension (1) – Ischemic vascular disease (2) – Heart failure (1) – Coronary artery disease (2)
• 7 measures without comparable data to guide benchmarks
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Quality Multiplier to Shared Savings ACO Performance level (percentile
national benchmark from MA and FFS plans or ACO participants)
Multiplier
90+ 100%
80-89 92.5%
70-79 85.0%
60-69 77.5%
50-59 70.0%
40-49 62.5%
30-39 55.0%
<30 0
Must meet >= 30 for at least 1 measure in each domain to get savings
CMS warning if fail to meet >=30 for at least 70% of measures
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Projected Revenue (hypothetical; varies by benchmark cost)
Savings 5,000 members PMPM
Reduction based on scoring the MC mean on
quality PMPM
1% 0 0 0 0
2% 0 0 0 0
3% 0 0 0 0
4% $1,351,600 $22.53 $946,120 $15.77
5% $1,689,500 $28.16 $1,182,650 $19.71
6% $2,027,400 $33.79 $1,419,180 $23.65
7% $2,365,300 $39.42 $1,655,710 $27.59
8% $2,703,200 $45.05 $1,892,240 $31.54
9% $3,041,100 $50.69 $2,128,770 $35.48
10% $3,379,000 $56.32 $2,365,300 $39.42
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Number of ACOs Average/year Range
Start-up costs 35 $2 million $300,000-$6.7 million
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MSSP Projected First Year Savings Prospects (Source: National Association of ACO Survey Nov. 2013)
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Projected Care Management Expense (hypothetical)
Low intensity Medium intensity
High intensity Expense PMPM
Care Manager and outreach worker team to Member
ratio
1:1,000 1:150 1:70
Scenario #1 70% 18% 12% $15.62
Scenario #2 80% 10% 10% $12.69
Scenario #3 90% 5% 5% $8.92
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Projected Administrative Expense Expense 5,000 members 10,000 members
Salary & fringe CEO, COO, CMO,
Controller
Consulting
IT
Provider incentive
Other
Overhead
Total PMPM PMPM
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Hypothetical Net Revenue PMPM (5,000 members) (hypothetical)
Savings Max Qual CM#1
CM#2
CM#3
Mean Qual CM#1
CM#2
CM#3
1% -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86 -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86
2% -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86 -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86
3% -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86 -$28.56 -$25.63 -$21.86
4% -$6.03 -$3.10 $.67 -$12.79 -$9.86 -$6.09
5% -$.40 $2.53 $6.30 -$8.85 -$5.92 -$2.15
6% $5.23 $8.16 $11.93 -$4.91 -$1.98 $1.79
7% $10.86 $13.79 $17.56 -$.96 $1.97 $5.74
8% $16.49 $19.42 $23.19 $2.98 $5.91 $9.68
9% $22.13 $25.06 $28.83 $6.92 $9.85 $13.62
10% $27.76 $30.69 $34.46 $10.86 $13.79 $17.56
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Pioneer ACO Results for 2012 (Updated CMS announcement January 30, 2014)
• 669,000 attributed individuals to 32 ACOs • All outperformed industry benchmarks on 15
quality measures • 9 produced savings that exceeded the minimal
savings threshold and also met quality reporting requirements
• Cost trend as a whole increased 0.3% vs. cohort of 0.8% with savings derived from reduced hospitalizations/readmits generating gross savings of $147 million
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• 114 MSSP ACOs began operations in 2012 • 54 had lower than expected expenditures • 29 delivered large enough reductions to be
able to share in the saving, generating $126 million in savings
• All but 5 satisfactorily reported on their quality measures (2 of whom generated savings)
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MSSP Interim Financial Results (CMS announcement January 30, 2014)
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Unanswered Questions • Discrimination against historically high value providers
• Impact of quality performance on year 2 savings
• Total ROI (savings minus start-up minus operational cost minus lost FFS revenue)
• Adequate savings to incent providers at the practice level
• Ability to manage “leakage” and beneficiary engagement
• Rebasing benchmarks
• Alignment with non-Medicare ACO incentives
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Contact Information
• Lynne Fagnani [email protected]
• Art Jones [email protected]
(800) 678-2299 www.healthmanagement.com
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