Making a Dent in the Trillion-Dollar Problem: Toward Zero Defects

October 05, 2020

University Hospitals receives $9.1 million dollars under Medicare Shared Savings Program

University Hospitals Coordinated Care Organization (UHCCO), the hospital’s Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO), improved quality of care for more than 54,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Northeastern Ohio while reducing their total cost of care in 2019. In turn, UHCCO saved Medicare over $20 million by meeting quality and cost goals, according to recently released performance data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). University Hospitals (UH) received a quality score of 97.4 percent for the 2019 performance year, and will receive $9.1 million in shared savings from CMS.