ACO Risk Adjustment

I’ve been working with our ACO and their CCLF claims data quite a bit recently, and have become decently familiar with the adjustment methods CMS employs to adjust ACO payments. I just answered a question on reddit the other day on the topic, and right after I wrote out my answer explaining the process I saw this Health Affairs blog post on the same topic.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20160329.054175/full