Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note.
Colorado Medicaid achieved $44 million in gross savings or “cost avoidance” in its accountable care collaborative program during the 2012-2013 fiscal year, the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced.
Most of that $44 million is going back to providers and regional care organizations as performance incentive payments, but the state is taking a slice — $6 million, double what the state government saved last year.
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November 5, 2013
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