With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Medicare program embarked on a significant journey toward a value-based payment and care delivery system. The broad goal was to achieve a transformed system focused on the value of the care received by patients over...
Statement by Jeff Micklos, Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force The Health Care Transformation Task Force expresses its appreciation to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for announcing multiple models and other guidance in the past weeks related to value-based payment and care...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force hosted a webinar highlighting the launch of the Maternal Health Hub Learning Community! The Maternal Health Hub compiles resources and best practices to advance a vision for high-value and equitable maternity care and serves as a forum for all maternal...
Statement from the HCTTF Executive Director Jeff Micklos on 2019 MSSP Performance "We applaud the recent announcement that the Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs generated $1.19 billion in total net savings to Medicare. These results demonstrate that providers in alternative payment models are continuing to deliver...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force developed the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Roles and Responsibilities Matrix as a resource to support payer, provider, and purchaser efforts to clearly identify and assign roles and responsibilities for common APM workstreams and activities. The goal of the matrix...
New Tool Helps Organizations Define Roles and Coordinate Activities Key to Delivering High Quality Care WASHINGTON (September 16, 2020) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient advocacy organizations, today released a...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) is committed to developing resources designed to help both beginner and advanced organizations realize their full potential in transforming to a value-based health care system. Below, existing HCTTF resources are categorized for ease of reference....
The Health Care Transformation Task Force and other organizations who strongly support the movement away from the current fee-for-service (FFS) system toward value-based care, wrote to express appreciation for the significant efforts underway by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic and to assist clinicians and...
Statement by Jeff Micklos, Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the limitations of an antiquated fee-for-service (FFS) health care system. The health care industry is learning important lessons from this public health emergency, and it is essential that payment...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) wrote a letter urging Congress to take bold action to advance value-based payment and care delivery during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers operating under mature value-based payment models have shown the ability to withstand the...