Healthcare Innovation January 27, 2022
In a strongly worded blog in Health Affairs online, Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D., Chair of MedPAC, and J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., push back against attacks on the ACO and GPDC models
In yet another sign that the huge debate stirred up by Donald M. Berwick, M.D., and Richard Gilfillan, M.D., by their publication on Sep. 30, 2021 of their blog in Health Affairs online, “Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2: Building On The ACO Model,” is far from being quieted, yet another pair of prominent healthcare policy leaders has come out with an extremely strong rebuttal to that September blog. This time, the two leaders are Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D., who is the Leonard...