Modern Healthcare November 20, 2017
Maria Castellucci

Provider groups called on the CMS to create more opportunities for physicians to participate in existing and new alternative payment models in order to advance the Innovation Center’s mission of moving healthcare delivery from volume to value.

In letters to the CMS, several healthcare organizations asked the agency to create advanced alternative payment models that are more flexible and include specialty physicians to encourage more participation.

The comments were in response to the agency’s request for information in September after CMS Administrator Seema Verma argued that the Innovation Center’s old policies burdened providers and led to consolidation.

The deadline for comments is Monday night.

A few provider groups took the opportunity to encourage the CMS to reconsider statutes that could...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicare, Physician, Regulations, Value Based
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