Health Affairs January 14, 2016
Samuel Nussbaum, Mark McClellan, Mark D. Smith, and Patrick H. Conway

The release of the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework White Paper earlier this week is an important milestone in the progress of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) toward its goal: driving new and innovative health care payment models that promise to improve the quality and value of health care.

The White Paper was developed over the course of several months by the LAN’s Alternative Payment Model Framework and Progress Tracking (APM FPT) Work Group and its Guiding Committee (GC), representing a wide range of private payers, large employers, providers, patients, consumer groups, and state and federal partners. It establishes a common framework and a set of conventions to facilitate discussions among stakeholders and expedite the generation...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations, Value Based
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