Healthcare Innovation January 14, 2022
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Elizabeth Fowler, and Meena Seshamani have authored a statement of intent as powerful and explicit as any in CMS’s history—and they’ve roped value-based care into their formulation
As we reported on Wednesday, Jan. 12, “The top officials at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday, Jan. 11, made a major public statement regarding the goal of moving the healthcare system towards health equity, and a major component of that statement focused on leveraging Medicare’s value-based programs, particularly those focused on accountable care organizations (ACOs) to help drive change.”
We noted that, writing in Health Affairs Forefront (formerly the Health Affairs Blog), Meena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D., Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure wrote of...