Healthcare Innovation August 16, 2022
Nearly a year after the Drs. Berwick and Gilfillan created a heated debate in the healthcare policy world around incentives in alternative payment models, another team of experts weighs in
Nearly a year has passed since Donald Berwick, M.D., and Rick Gilfillan, M.D., opened a full-frontal attack on Medicare Advantage (MA), in their September 30, 2021 blog in Health Affairs online entitled “Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And the Medicare ‘Money Machine.’” That blog, which was actually the second of a two-part blog set, but was the one that captured nearly all the public attention, and indeed, it created a firestorm in federal healthcare policy circles.