Fierce Healthcare November 29, 2018
At ONC’s annual conference, Adam Boehler said HHS’ prime goal is to “get rid of fee for service.”
If there was any doubt about the Trump administration’s desire to push healthcare towards a value-based system, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Director Adam Boehler wiped it away on Thursday morning.
“I’ll tell you a lot of what I do in my role running CMMI as senior adviser to Secretary Azar is to blow up fee for service,” he said during a fireside chat at the Office of the National Coordinator’s annual conference. “That’s one of our prime goals—is to get rid of fee for service.”
It’s not the first time that Boehler, who was appointed to the position...