HealthLeaders Media January 9, 2017
Medicare’s most popular ACO program is criticized for failing to save taxpayer dollars and perpetuating a fee-for-service approach to the financing of healthcare services.
Harold Miller
A healthcare payment reform advocate is calling on Medicare officials to shift away from agency’s biggest shared savings program and to foster more alternative payment models that generate value for patients and taxpayers.
Harold D. Miller, president and CEO at the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, a non-profit, is lambasting the new Track 1+ in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“The CMS MSSP program has been a failure. CMS has lost money on the program for three straight years from 2013 to 2015, and...