HealthLeaders Media June 8, 2018
– Says CMMI programs aren’t working; have ‘failed to deliver.’
The Obama-era strategy to move the healthcare system from volume to value is too complicated and isn’t working well, a Trump administration health official said here Wednesday.
The volume-to-value push has resulted in “a big sprawling complicated series of byzantine programs that few people understand” and it “sucks more value out of the system than it delivers,” Joseph Grogan, associate director for health programs for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), said at the start of a three-day conference on accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled payments and MACRA. The OMB oversees $3 trillion in healthcare spending.
Grogan took specific aim at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation...