Medicare Shared Savings ACOs Saved Medicare $2.5 Billion In 2024

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) accountable care organizations (ACOs) generated $2.5 billion in savings to Medicare relative to benchmarks during performance year (PY) 2024, according to a fact sheet issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on September 29, 2025. The savings were generated by ACOs that met or exceeded their cost savings benchmarks for what CMS would otherwise have spent on the assigned beneficiaries and that also met their quality-of-care benchmarks. The fact sheet stated that PY 2024 had the highest amount of savings generated by ACOs and the highest savings for . . .