Lexology July 1, 2020
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced flexibilities and adjustments for current and future alternative payment models administered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to accommodate relevant participants, providers and stakeholders during the COVID-19 public health emergency. While CMS announced that additional details regarding model-specific flexibilities will be released on a rolling basis, CMS leadership authored a blog post and released a table that outlines the models and changes applicable to relevant models.
CMS has utilized existing flexibilities built into current bundled payment models, as well as aligned its additional adjustments with COVID-19 public health emergency flexibilities available on a Medicare fee for service basis (see our previous alert on Section 1135 waivers here). CMS...