The Task Force is a diverse group of private sector stakeholders across the industry – including providers, health plans, employers, and consumers – that support accelerating the pace of delivery system transformation. Together we share a common commitment to transform our respective businesses and clinical...
Hearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging “Patient-Focused Care: A Prescription to Reduce Health Care Costs” Written testimony submitted by the Health Care Transformation Task Force Jeff Micklos, Executive Director October 3, 2018 Read the PDF Chairman Collins, Ranking Member Casey, and Members of the Senate Special Committee on...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force provides input on CMS’s proposed rule titled “Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; Quality Payment Program; and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Program” (CMS-2018-0076). Read...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force shared recommendations with CMS on how to improve synchronization between Medicare ACOs and the new BPCI Advanced model. Read the letter here...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force shared recommendations with CMS on how to address limitations of the physician self-referral ("Stark") law when advancing a transition to value-based care in response to the CMS's Request for Information. Read the letter here...
Statement by Jeff Micklos, Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force “The Health Care Transformation Task Force welcomes the release of Medicare’s Pathways to Success for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). This is an important step to promote value-based transformation and to push industry momentum forward. At...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force shared recommendations with the Health Care Innovation Caucus, which is a bipartisan Congressional group chaired by U.S. Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA). The Task Force supports the Caucus in its...
WASHINGTON (July 31, 2018) - The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, announced today that Geisinger and Clarify Health Solutions have joined its membership. With more than 40 organizations representing patients, payers, providers and...
Health care providers across the country are increasingly adopting care management programs to better serve high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients, a small percentage of individuals with complex medical, social, and behavioral needs who utilize the largest proportion of national health care resources. A significant barrier to...
Contracting Tool Launched to Help Health Care Organizations Manage High-Need, High-Cost Populations Report and Practical Guidance available to Payers and Providers WASHINGTON (July 11, 2018) – The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF), with support from The Commonwealth Fund...