MedPage Today November 8, 2017
House subcommittee fields request for technical support for payment model design
Physicians are experts in clinical care — not payment — and they need technical support to design new payment models, according to experts at a hearing of the Health Subcommittee for the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
“There are still barriers that physicians face in transitioning to these new models,” said Elizabeth Mitchell, vice chair for the Physician-focused Payment Technical Advisory Committee (P-TAC), referring to the advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
P-TAC is an 11-member committee, established by Congress under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, to evaluate proposed APMs, and offers recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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