Fierce Healthcare November 27, 2017
Greater flexibility and better consumer protections top the wish list of recommendations for groups providing feedback to CMS on how to improve its innovative value-based payment models.
CMS recently requested feedback on its efforts to promote value-based care. Advocacy groups have some concrete recommendations as the agency juggles various stakeholders’ priorities.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s announcement soliciting feedback on value-based payment models raised alarms among some lawmakers who were concerned the move represented a front for undermining Medicare. Responses offered by the Medicare Rights Center and the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) have opted to take the agency at its word, offering a mix of general principles and concrete examples intended to ensure innovative payment models do not hurt...