Becker's Healthcare August 11, 2020
Ayla Ellison

CMS announced Aug. 11 that it is launching a new payment model to provide up-front investments and capitated payments to healthcare organizations in rural areas.

Here are 10 things to know about the Community Health and Rural Transformation Model:

1. Through the CHART Model, CMS said it aims to address disparities by providing a way for rural communities to transform their healthcare delivery systems by leveraging innovative financial arrangements as well as operational and regulatory flexibilities.

2. The new payment model will include two options for participation: the community transformation track and the ACO transformation track.

Community transformation track

3. CMS will select up to 15 lead organizations for the community transformation track. A lead...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Insurance, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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