Modern Healthcare December 27, 2017
The shift to value-based payment stalled in 2017 largely because of decisions made by new CMS leadership and distractions caused by efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, health quality experts say.
Over the last year, new CMS Administrator Seema Verma touted an agenda that supported value-based payment but also focused on ways to reduce administrative burden for clinicians. As a result, the Trump administration slowed down the implementation of Obama-era mandates intended to move the dial on value-based payment.
The CMS in November rescinded a rule requiring more providers to participate in Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model and then tossed out the Episode Payment Models and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model, which were scheduled to begin on...
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