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Opinion: Medicare’s Shared Savings Program results should have made headlines. It got a ‘collective shrug’ instead

A victory lap is in order for the #Medicare Shared Savings Program, along with a plea for one heck of a better media plan to share the program's results in…

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.

CMS shared the announcement through and an article by Seema Verma, the administrator of CMS. Coverage in trade publications was sparse. It just last year, one that

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