Managed Care Mag February 19, 2020
For much of the last decade, providers and payers have been trying to figure out how to make ACOs work and deliver on the promises of value-based care. The results? Let’s call them mixed to middling. Now, with a new decade starting, it may be direct contracting’s turn to be the great hope.
Just before Thanksgiving, CMS announced that requests for applications for Medicare’s Direct Contracting program were available. The agency is calling participants “direct contracting entities,” or DCEs, thereby accreting one more bit of jargon to the vast galaxy of health care jargon. Prospective DCEs have until Feb. 25 to apply to participate in the implementation phase of the program. The first performance year isn’t till 2021, and the...
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