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Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
The CMS Innovation Center has announced a funding opportunity for the Integrated Care for Kids model and a webinar on Feb. 19.
Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
The CMS Innovation Center will execute up to 12 cooperative agreements with states whose Medicaid agencies will implement the Maternal Opioid Misuse model with one or more “care-delivery partners” in their communities. The Notice of Funding Opportunity is now available.
Payment Innovation: Other
HHS and OIG release proposed rule targeting pharmacy benefits managers.
Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
This handy CMMI payment model tracker will allow you to easily follow changes and help you better understand the evolution of value-based payment in the Medicare and Medicaid program.
Payment Innovation: Other
CMS releases various payment innovation-related announcements.
Payment Innovation: Other , Quality Payment Program
CMS announces Medicaid demonstration to expand mental health treatment services.
Payment Innovation: Other
Survey results released by the Institute for Medicaid Innovation find that around half of Medicaid managed care organizations launched population-specific value-based purchasing models last year, and around 10 percent of plans had extensive value-based purchasing arrangements in place.
Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
CMS announces the Material Opioid Misuse (MOM) model as part of the agency’s strategy for combating the opioid crisis.
Payment Innovation: Other
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network released a new report on alternative payment model adoption.
Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
On August 23, 2018, CMS announced a new model that is intended to address the opioid crisis for children.
Health Reform 2.0: Budget Information
The Republican House Budget Committee released a FY 2019 budget roadmap, The Budget for A Brighter American Future, on June 19.
Payment Innovation: Innovation Center
Health Reform 2.0: Regulation
Health Reform 2.0: Stakeholder Engagement
On March 16, 2017, four Republican governors (John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan, Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Asa Hutchison of Arkansas) sent congressional leaders a letter criticizing the American Health Care Act and proposing an alternative framework for reforming the Medicaid program. The four governors endorse per capita caps and block grants,…
Health Reform 2.0: Stakeholder Engagement
January 12, 2017 report examining how repeal legislation could affect Medicaid.
Health Reform 2.0: Congress
In a letter to the Republican Governors Association dated December 13, 2016, the Senate Finance Committee announced that it will convene a Governor Roundtable in January 2017 to discuss the sustainability and future of the Medicaid program.
Health Reform 2.0: Regulation
Health Reform 2.0: Stakeholder Engagement
November 18, 2016 report from the Commonwealth Fund examining the President-elect Trump and some congressional leaders’ calls for absolute limits on the federal government’s spending on Medicaid. This report explores the two most common proposals for reengineering federal funding of Medicaid: block grants that set limits on total annual spending, regardless of enrollment; and caps…