Medicare’s largest alternative payment model produced its highest annual savings to date in 2020, while continuing to provide high-quality care, as shown by performance data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Twelve leading healthcare organizations are asking Congress to include a bipartisan House bill that will accelerate Medicare’s move to value-based payment in the upcoming reconciliation bill.
Fourteen national health stakeholder groups in a letter on July 20, 2021, praised the reintroduction of a bipartisan House bill that will accelerate Medicare’s move to value-based payment by boosting accountable care organizations and other alternative payment models.
NAACOS Statement on CMS’s Proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took the appropriate step by proposing to roll back changes that the agency finalized last year in how accountable care organizations (ACOs) report and are measured on quality.
In a letter sent to Congress, 13 leading healthcare organizations, including the National Association of ACOs, expressed their strong support for a recently reintroduced bill that fixes a flaw in the way financial targets, or benchmarks, are set for Medicare accountable care organizations.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced that 53 Direct Contracting Entities are participating in the Direct Contracting Model’s first Performance Year, which started April 1.
Starts April 20th – New CMS Innovation Center Director, Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is confirmed to open the NAACOS Spring Conference on April 20. Dr. Fowler is a highly-regarded health policy expert with extensive experience in federal government, philanthropy, and industry. She will update conference attendees on the latest news from CMMI.
Here are recent reports and surveys showing us the pandemic is still and will continue to impact healthcare in every part of the industry. ACO participation reached its lowest level during previous administration. Cyber criminals continue to persist on attacks to obtain health data.
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