MedPage Today August 30, 2018
Should fee-for-service payment disappear? It would if Adam Boehler had his way.
“I’d like to banish fee-for-service; I’d like to banish the ‘revenue cycle,'” Boehler, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), said at a briefing here Thursday. “How much time do doctors spend documenting and coding for revenue? That’s a terrible system.”
Boehler, who has been at his job for 4 months, gave wide-ranging remarks at the briefing, starting with his transition from venture capitalist and then business owner to government employee. The company he founded, Landmark Health, provides home care services to chronically ill patients with complex conditions with the aim of improving outcomes and keeping them out of the hospital. Landmark Health now...
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