Managed Health Care Connect February 16, 2017
The Healthcare Leaders for Accountable Innovation in Medicare, a coalition of more than 35 national health care organizations, shared a set of new principles to guide future Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) testing, and addresses concerns related to the agency. The principles were submitted to HHS Secretary Tom Price and congressional leaders.
“As our healthcare system evolves toward value-based care, it is essential to test new ideas that have the potential to make healthcare more quality-driven, cost-efficient, and patient-focused,” the coalition wrote. “Fortunately, [CMMI] provides such a robust research and development platform to experiment and evaluate new payment and delivery approaches and determine what works and why.”
The coalition, which represents patients, hospitals, physicians and health care leaders,...