While both episode-based and population-based payment models present opportunities for improvement in quality and care, they are not always in alignment. The recent implementation of Medicare-focused alternative payment models has resulted in instances of overlap, where multiple providers may be responsible for the same patient...
In a letter to Congress and the Administration, a coalition of clinicians, employers, hospitals, pharmacists, consumer groups and insurance providers called for a renewed effort to move to value-based, patient centered payment models that reward improved quality and cost-effective care. The Task Force along with...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a consortium of patients, payers, providers and purchasers working to transform the U.S. health care delivery system to promote value-based, person-centered care, announces the appointment of Caitlin Sweany as the director of transformation facilitation and support, effective immediately. Download...
A coalition of large health systems, employers and insurers would like Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress to keep the march from fee-for-service medicine to value-based care going after President Barack Obama leaves the White House.The 43-member Health Care Transformation Task Force includes Aetna; Blue...
A group of influential healthcare industry executives is asking President-elect Donald Trump and other incoming policymakers to keep and prioritize value-based care models, which have been championed under the Affordable Care Act.Read the full article....
The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a 43-member consortium of purchasers, providers, payers and patients, is making a case to the incoming Trump administration that the shift from fee-for-service to value-based payment models is worth preserving. In particular, the group stressed the importance of the...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force called on the incoming Trump administration in a letter sent Tuesday to continue efforts to replace fee-for-service payment models with value-based care. The task force, which includes patients, payers, providers and purchasers in its ranks, notes in the letter (PDF)...
A group that includes six of the nation's top 15 health systems and four of the top 25 payers urged the Trump-Pence administration to make a commitment to value-based healthcare payment reform.The 43-member Health Care Transformation Task Force wrote a letter to the incoming administration...
Before the Trump administration takes office and the promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act begins, dozens of health care groups this week wrote to leaders of the next Congress and administration and urged them to keep moving away from fee-for-service health care and towards...
The HCTTF supports the policies of MACRA and moving Medicare payment for physician services to a value-based formula that focuses on quality, resource use, clinical practice improvement, and meaningful use of certified EHR technology under the Medicare Incentive Payment System. As a major proponent of...