Tag: Innovation Center
On Friday, June 5, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a series of updates to the Direct Contracting model timeline and financial methodology. The model’s Implementation Period will now begin October 1, ...
On February 11, 2020, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will host office hours on the Direct Contracting model’s payment methodology. During this second session—the second in a two-part series—the Direct Contra...
On February 4, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will host office hours on the Direct Contracting model’s payment methodology. During the session—the first of two—the Direct Contracting model team will prov...
On Thursday, January 16, Shannon Sartin announced in a blog post that she has been hired as the new Chief Technology Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) where she will help oversee technology. Previously, Sa...
On January 6, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Brad Smith will serve as the Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) a...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) held a public listening session on Monday, November 4, 2019, to discuss a new oncology payment model that builds on the current Oncol...
MSSP Saves $739.4 Million in 2018 Recently released performance results show that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) generated $739.4 million in total net savings across 548 accountable care organizations (ACOs) in 2018. In a Health ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) posted the second annual report for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Investment Model (AIM). This investment model was developed in response to concerns from providers abo...
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) held a public meeting on September 16. The Committee voted on a proposed physician-focused payment model: ACCESS Telemedicine: An Alternative Healthcare Delivery Model for Ru...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) posted the final report evaluating the Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration. An overview of the major findings can be found here. This demonstration provided payments to fi...
Slides from recent webinars on the Primary Care First Model Options are now available.
The Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) team hosted a webinar on August 8, 2019, providing an overview of the application portal. The team provided guidance for ambulance suppliers and providers to submit a completed application to participa...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center will host a webinar to provide details on the Kidney Care First (KCF) and the Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting (CKCC) models. Both models build upon the existing structure of the Comprehe...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center will host a webinar on the proposed Radiation Oncology (RO) Model. During this listening session, CMS experts will briefly cover the major provisions from the proposed rule and address clarify...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) posted CY 2020 marketing and communications guidelines for the Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model. This document provides communications and marketing ...
On October 1, 2018, the first cohort of Participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) Model started participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Advanced Alternative Payment model. The Cent...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center released its 2018 Report to Congress. The report provides an overview of 36 models and initiatives that run between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2018. The report includes links...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Notice of Intent to Apply (NOIA) and application cycle dates for a January 1, 2020, start date for the Medicare Shared Savings Program Pathways to Success. Beginning June 11, 2019, CM...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will be holding informational sessions on recently announced payment models. CMS announced two new pathways encompassing five...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced two new pathways encompassing five new payment models intended to move organizations toward value based payments an...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is holding its second webinar on the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on April 18, 2019, at 2:30 pm ET. This webinar will include an overview of the model, its ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (Innovation Center) posted the fifth annual report of their State Initiative Models. The Innovation Center invested over $250 million in Round 1 Model Test awards to support six states ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is holding a webinar on April 4, from 2:45 to 4 pm ET, to review the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) model Notice of Funding Opportunity and Grants.gov application process. The same material from the webi...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has released slides and a webinar recording on the Alternative Payment Model (APM) component of the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model. The webinar features an APM overview, guidelines, requirements ...
Launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2017, the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Reduction Model (Million Heart Model) tests whether providing targeted incentives to health care providers to reduce CVD ri...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is holding a webinar on February 28, 2019, at 3 pm ET. It will provide a deep dive into the application processes and information about model designs for the Part D Payment Modernization Model and the M...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is holding a webinar on February 21 from 2:00 to 3:15 pm ET to review the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) model Notice of Funding Opportunity and Grants.gov application process. State Medicaid agencies an...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will execute up to 12 cooperative agreements with states whose Medicaid agencies will implement the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) model with...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) has posted factsheets for the seven quality measures selected for use in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced)...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced a funding opportunity for the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) model. The model is a child-centered local service delivery and sta...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) has posted a factsheet on year three evaluation results for the Independence at Home Demonstration. Under this program, the Innovation Cent...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) recently posted a number of documents related to the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced). The model,...
In early January 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) appointed Dr. Anand Shah as the Senior Medical Advisor for Innovation at CMS. Reporting directly to CMS Director Seema Verma, he will lead efforts across CMS to advance medic...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its Innovation Center support the development and testing of innovative health care payment and delivery models. The Innovation Center is expected to announce several new models in 2019 – at ...
On January 25, 2019, the Innovation Center hosted a webinar on the 2020 application cycle of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model. This webinar will be repeated on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST. M...
The CMS Innovation Center posted a number of new resources to the website:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Material Opioid Misuse (MOM) model as part of the agency’s strategy for combating the opioid crisis. The model addresses coordination of clinical care and other services with the ...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recently released the 2018 Payment Basics, a series of briefs on the various Medicare payment systems. Medicare has more than 20 distinct systems for paying health care providers who serve Medicare be...
The Physician-Focused Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) met September 6-7, 2018, in Washington, DC, to review four proposed payment models. At the recent meeting, PTAC recommended one model for implementation, two models for limited-scale testing a...
On June 13, 2018, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, responded to recommendations from the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) on 12 proposed payment models. The Secretary did not commit to im...
The Oncology Care Model (OCM) team will be hosting a public forum for stakeholders on Thursday, May 3 from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm EDT. All interested OCM stakeholders are invited to attend this public meeting, with the goal of hearing feedback abo...
U.S. Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) announced today the creation of the new bipartisan congressional Health Care Innovation Caucus. The group will seek to promote payment models ...
CMS recently announced the process for Medicaid Alternative Payment models (APMs) to be certified as Other Payer Advanced APMs under Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). Under the Advanced APM track of the QPP, eligible clinicians who meet eit...
On Thursday, November 30, 2017, CMS released the final rule and interim final rule to implement changes to the Comprehensive Joint Replacement Program (CJR). This rule also cancels the Episode Payment Models and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive...
On November 3, 2017, the Innovation Center released Report to Congress: Episodic Alternative Payment Model for Radiation Therapy Services. Section 3(b) of the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (PAMPA) (P.L. 114-115) directs the Sec...
On September 20, 2017, the CMS Innovation Center issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking feedback on the future direction for the Center’s efforts. The RFI is available here. Congress created the Innovation Center in 2010 to test n...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is soliciting applications from practices and payers for Round 2 of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model. Four regions were selected for Round 2:
On May 12, 2017, ten organizations submitted a letter to Secretary of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Tom Price urging him to afford physicians and physician groups credit for participation in Medicare Advantage Alternative Payment Models ...
On May 16, 2017, the Health Affairs Blog launched a new topic: Diffusion of Innovation. The focus of the blog topic is how innovations are diffused across health care and will continue over the next year followed by the publication of a theme issue i...
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will hold a public listening session regarding the development of a report to Congress on an alternative payment model for radiation therapy services. The listening session, sch...
CMS is hosting a stakeholder feedback opportunity on the Oncology Care Model (OCM) on Thursday, May 11, 2017 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. All interested OCM stakeholders are invited to attend this public forum, with the goal of hearing feedback about OCM...
On Thursday, January 5, 2017 the CMS Innovation Center released its third Report to Congress. While the focus of the report was on activities between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2016, it also included initiatives between September 30,...
On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized several new Innovation center models expanding the agency’s footprint in the value based payment model space. While these models are primarily focused on f...
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report on the results from an early implementation review of the Medicare agency’s management of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The OIG reported that as of December 2016, CMS had f...
On October 13, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an 18-month pilot program to reduce the burden of medical record review of clinicians participating in certain Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). CMS uses ...
