Obamacare Savings Experiment Yields Modest Results in Study

An ambitious Obamacare experiment in cutting health-care costs led to a reduction of about 1.2 percent in spending on Medicare patients in its first year, researchers said, calling the savings a promising start.

Still, the government may need to make changes to keep hospitals and doctors in the program, known as Pioneer, Harvard University researchers said in a paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine. Since Pioneer started in 2012, 13 of 32 organizations that initially joined have exited.