Every Patient Who Moves to MA Is a Shared Savings Dollar You'll Never See.
ACOs invest heavily in care management, quality programs, and risk analytics. But Medicare coverage decisions happen outside your control. Connie Health operates as your structured Medicare engagement layer — stabilizing attribution, reducing unintended plan switching, and protecting shared savings performance under MSSP and ACO REACH.
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The financial damage from unmanaged Medicare enrollment isn't dramatic — it's structural. Each year, beneficiaries make quiet coverage decisions that systematically remove value from your ACO's model.
Patient switches to MA
During AEP, a beneficiary enrolls in an MA plan — often after seeing a TV ad or hearing from a broker
Attribution removed
That patient is immediately removed from your ACO's attributed population and excluded from your benchmarks
MA plan captures value
The plan collects capitated premium + risk adjustment revenue. Your care management work goes uncompensated
Benchmark erodes
As healthy patients leave, your remaining population skews sicker — making future benchmarks harder to beat
Attribution Volatility Erodes Shared Savings at Scale
You've built high-functioning care management infrastructure. Your MSSP or ACO REACH contract hinges on performance and attribution stability. Yet beneficiary coverage decisions — made annually, at scale, outside your visibility — can quietly restructure the financial foundation of your ACO.
The problem is compounding. Low-risk, healthy patients are disproportionately attracted to MA's $0 premiums and extra benefits. When they leave, your remaining FFS population skews toward higher complexity and higher cost — making it progressively harder to beat your benchmark year over year.
And when a patient moves to MA, the claims data disappears. You can't manage what you can't see.
Direct impact on ACO performance
The Patients Leaving Are the Ones You Can Least Afford to Lose
Medicare Advantage's most attractive features — $0 premiums, dental, vision, and fitness benefits — disproportionately appeal to younger, healthier beneficiaries. Which is precisely the population that anchors your ACO's cost performance.
Healthy patients migrate to MA
Lower-risk beneficiaries attracted by extra benefits leave your FFS panel for MA plans — taking their low-cost status with them.
Remaining population grows costlier
Your attributed FFS population skews toward older, higher-risk, higher-utilization patients — widening the gap against your benchmark.
MA captures the upside you created
If your care programs kept a patient healthy and low-cost before they switched, the MA plan collects the risk-adjusted premium. You receive nothing.
Risk coding shifts to MA plans
MA plans aggressively document HCCs to maximize capitation. This changes the risk profile across your market — and creates benchmark complications.
What Even Modest Switching Looks Like on a Real Panel
The financial impact doesn't require dramatic shifts. Single-digit switching rates create meaningful and compounding variability under MSSP and ACO REACH.
Three Integrated Capabilities to Protect Performance
We operate as your structured Medicare engagement layer — proactively reducing preventable attribution volatility while giving your leadership team visibility into Medicare movement across your panel.
Attribution Stabilization
Licensed Medicare guidance aligned to your network strategy. Proactive enrollment engagement during AEP and OEP. Beneficiary education designed to reduce unintended plan switching, protect PCP continuity, and preserve attributed population stability across contract years.
Year-Round Panel Engagement
Beyond enrollment season — coverage optimization reviews, quarterly touchpoints, Annual Wellness Visit support, and prescription adherence education. Moving from reactive enrollment management to continuous, proactive Medicare engagement that supports quality and utilization improvement.
Performance Visibility
Enrollment analytics, referral tracking, attribution movement dashboards, and quarterly executive reviews. Structured reporting purpose-built for MSSP and ACO REACH management — giving your team the visibility to proactively manage attribution rather than react to it at year-end.
From Reactive to Proactive Attribution Management
Risk-bearing ACOs have invested in analytics, care management, quality optimization, and risk stratification. Structured Medicare engagement is the missing layer that protects all of it.
- Panel unpredictability each enrollment cycle
- Attribution loss discovered after it happens
- Low-risk patients cream off to MA undetected
- Care management data goes dark when patients switch
- Benchmark erodes as population complexity increases
- Leadership lacks visibility into Medicare movement
- Panel predictability improves measurably
- Attribution protection becomes proactive and strategic
- Low-risk patient retention improves
- Care continuity maintained through enrollment transitions
- Benchmark stability improves over time
- Real-time visibility into Medicare trends at panel level
Platform supports performance under: MSSP · ACO REACH · Medicare Advantage Risk Arrangements · Episode-Based Payment Models
Strengthen Your ACO's Competitive Position
If shared savings protection and panel stability are priorities for your ACO, we welcome a strategic conversation about Medicare engagement as a core performance lever.
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