Opinion: Medicare’s Shared Savings Program results should have made headlines. It got a ‘collective shrug’ instead
Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services makes a major announcement about how its Shared Savings Program saved three-quarters of a billion dollars last year alone and no one notices, did the savings really matter?
No prominent national business publication gave significant coverage to the late September announcement about the impressive savings from this value-based care program.
