The Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform (CHQPR) offers steps to support its contention that value-based payment is only successful when explicitly designed to support value-based care, which the CMS Innovation Center says requires increased data sharing and the AMA warns is only possible when health systems/plans and...
On January 30, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out a new website that it hopes will facilitate value-based care (VBC) uptake and education.
CMS Innovation Center Director Liz Fowler has previously noted that the parameters for "value-based care" have remained elusive to industry stakeholders. In response,...Arizona News
Gene therapies, which treat diseases at the genetic level, are becoming increasingly popular for pharmaceutical manufacturers as the efficacy of directly working with the human genome shows promise for effective health outcomes. But as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves them for use in the U.S., these drugs carry a hefty...National News
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reviewed the effectiveness of the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) activities on reducing federal spending and found it increased federal spending during its first decade.
CMMI was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 with the specific directive of creating pilot...National News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new state-based payment model focused on population health.
The Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approached and Development Model (AHEAD Model) will be offered to up to eight states with $12 million allotted per participating state. Modern Healthcare...National News
Adding a seventh track to the advanced payment model would provide a better bridge from the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to the ACO REACH model, according to the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations NAACOS. CMS is taking your comments.
According to a NAACOS blog post by David Pittman, the organization's...National News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting feedback on the design of an episode-based payment model on behalf of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI/Innovation Center).
Episode-based payment models are designed to address inadequacies in traditional Medicare through bundling and incentive...National News
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a roadmap for its strategic vision and priorities to expand equitable access to health coverage and promote value-based, person-centered care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) illustrated its vision through five main objectives to guide its...News
This week in value-based care (VBC), the Biden Administration is making headway on its goal to reform alternative payment models (APMs) for the Medicare program to boost program savings and advance the administration's goal of health equity in medicine.
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To get a refresh on value-based care models including the Quality Payment...Arizona News
Equality Health, a popular value-based contracting partner in Arizona, is now seeking primary care providers and specialists to join its new direct contracting entity: Equality Health Direct, which began operations in January 2022.
Direct contracting entities (DCEs) participate in the Global and Professional Direct Contracting...National News
The Biden administration has pledged to provide Americans with better in-roads to health coverage and to even the playing field for people at a systemic disadvantage from receiving adequate healthcare. This week, a number of policy decisions highlight the administration's commitment to these goals in Medicare coverage, health equity and...
Officials with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) published a strategic plan last Wednesday to make value-based care (VBC) payment models more streamlined in order to increase provider and patient participation. Since President Joe Biden took office, many alternative payment models (APMs) were put on hold or under...
