CMS Official: Logistical Limits Restricting New Payment Models
Aug. 8—Medicare has not approved more alternative payment models—despite calls by many hospitals and physicians for more of them—due to limits in time, staff, and funding, a Medicare executive said.
July 23-27: Providers Examining Why APMs Are Expected to Stall
July 19—Provider organizations next week will continue their analysis of the recently issued massive Medicare physician payment proposed rule, including the surprise projection that alternative payment model (APM) participation may decline.
March Toward Value-Based Care Slipping: Survey
July 18—A new survey of physicians and health plan execs says the march toward value-based care is slipping, throwing shade on other surveys that say the transition to outcomes-based payment is on track.
Trump Administration to Replace Value-Based Payment Goal
June 20—Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar II has rejected the Obama administration’s goal of shifting 50 percent of Medicare payments to value-based payment models by the end of 2018.
The Trump Administration’s Approach to Value
Ever since HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced that one of his priorities for the U.S. healthcare system would be to accelerate the shift to value-based care, industry stakeholders have awaited insight into how he would turn that priority into to policy action.
How Medicare ACOs May Respond to Spiking Risk
May 29—Accountable care organization (ACO) leaders are girding for changes to the Medicare ACO program that may require the vast majority in upside-only models to take on downside risk.
Navigating Value-Based Reimbursement
A roundtable discussion about value-based reimbursement challenges, opportunities, and strategies for success.
Value-Based Care Is a Better Investment for Everyone
Griffin Myers explains the value of value-based care.
Former CMS Leaders: ACO Changes Are Coming
May 11—Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) are likely to face an imminent overhaul, according to former leaders of the program.
Medicare Chief Targets Upside-Only ACOs
May 7—Medicare accountable care organizations that don’t accept downside risk are not producing results, says Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.