AISHealth December 7, 2017
CMS’s decision to cancel two planned mandatory value-based programs and to scale back a third is unlikely to have significant ripple effects on commercial insurers’ value-based contracting (VBC) arrangements. Insurers say they’re moving ahead as quickly as possible to shift providers into accountable care organizations and bundled payment arrangements.
However, the move by CMS does come amid a slowdown in the move to VBC, some stakeholders say. Some providers are more interested in studying what they’ve learned and making sure they understand how best to manage patients under these arrangements than they are in inking new contracts.
“We’re full steam ahead on all fronts,” says Lynn Garbee, senior director, reimbursement and collaborative care at Cigna Corp. “We have value-based arrangements...
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