MedPage Today June 16, 2020
— Mismatching of patient and provider assignment has allowed “unwarranted shared savings”
In its June report, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) said the program needs to move more quickly away from fee-for-service (FFS) payments.
“The commission has made an assertion that the progress towards value-based payment throughout the Medicare program needs to accelerate and more of the program needs to be detached from straight fee-for-service payments,” said Jim Matthews, PhD, executive director for MedPAC, during a press web conference on Monday.
The report’s authors also recommended changes to accountable care organizations (ACOs) to ensure that shared savings they receive are in fact deserved; and they considered strategies for determining which drugs should be paid for separately...
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