Following pressure from progressive Democrats and advocacy groups, the Biden administration is redesigning a controversial payment model that aims to introduce value-based payment arrangements in ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has redesigned its Medicare Direct Contracting Model to an Accountable Care Organization model focused on health equity. The ACO Realizing Equity, Access ...
The Biden administration is redesigning the controversial Direct Contracting Model to add new requirements to tackle health equity and ease progressive lawmakers’ concerns over the role of private ...
In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...
Participants, supporters, and opponents weigh in on the role of Medicare Advantage subsidiaries as program design evolves. Direct contracting (DC) is an interesting name for a CMS model that permits ...
The redesigned accountable care organization (ACO) model is called the Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health model and is scheduled to begin in 2023. CMS said Thursday it is redesigning its ...
The Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70 million in 2021 as the Biden administration plans a major overhaul to the value-based care program next year. Recently released data from the Centers ...
The Trump administration unveiled the original direct contracting model in 2019, with the goal of coordinating primary and specialty care, while allowing access to enhanced benefits. It offered a ...
Cigna subsidiary CareAllies, which helps providers simplify and accelerate value-based care, will participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Global and Professional Direct ...
More than 250 organizations sent a March 8 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra condemning its rebranding of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting model. The new model was announced by CMS ...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is quietly continuing a little-known Trump-era pilot program that clears the way for doctors and private health insurers to switch patients from Medicare to ...
The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model went out a winner in its second and final year by saving Medicare $371.5 million in 2022, a more than fivefold improvement from the prior year, the ...