Healthcare DIVE September 6, 2017
Big changes to CMS’ bundled payment programs could have immediate and long-term effects, but value-based care remains a bipartisan movement that won’t be easily stopped.
Most of the healthcare industry has been collectively holding its breath as President Donald Trump and his administration settle in to their new roles. The biggest worry has so far not come to pass, as Republicans in Congress failed in their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
But changes don’t have to be so dramatic to have a large effect. Policy observers are closely watching how the administration can more subtly undermine the objectives of the ACA through death by a thousand cuts rather than a showdown in the Capitol.
HHS made...