Modern Healthcare October 12, 2017
Virgil Dickson

Physicians hoping to succeed under new alternative payment models face a significant hurdle, and one that’s out of their control: vendor readiness.

Electronic health record vendors’ lack of preparedness to help physician practices make the changes necessary to perform well under new payment models can be a challenge, according to Dr. Laura Sessums of the CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Since the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, or CPC+, initiative launched last year, Sessums has noticed that vendor relationships are one of the hardest parts of getting a new pay model up and running.

“Vendors find the work difficult and they have other priorities,” Sessums said at a MACRA summit Thursday.

But the CMS has few options to push...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicare, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Value Based
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