Modern Healthcare July 7, 2017
The only silver lining in the massive storm cloud hovering over the Affordable Care Act is the persistence of bipartisan support for payment reforms aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering its cost.
While HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price has temporarily postponed expanding the bundled-payment program, the House-passed American Health Care Act left intact all the delivery system reforms contained in the 2010 landmark ACA legislation, including funding for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The first version of the Senate bill did the same.
But that doesn’t mean the CMS is proceeding smoothly toward value-based reimbursement. A new Government Accountability Office report found serious problems with Medicare’s value-based purchasing program, which rewards or penalizes hospitals based on a...
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