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Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Public-Use Files

Guidance for Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Public-Use Files. It includes the links to the dataset for multiple years spanning 2013 to 2019.

Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: September 14, 2020

To address the increasing number of requests for ACO Shared Savings Program data, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a standard analytical file. The ACO-level public use file (PUF) contains ACO-specific metrics as well as summarized beneficiary and provider information for each performance year of the Shared Savings Program.

Data Alert: The Performance Year 2019 and Performance Year 2019A Shared Savings Program ACO PUFs are now available.

The data is available on data.cms.gov:

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