The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) recently announced the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model. The REACH Model will replace the Direct Contracting model starting on 1/1/23. ACO REACH retains the DC Model Global and Professional tracks and adds new...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force sent a comment letter to CMS with recommendations for improving alignment between primary care and specialty focused models. The letter highlights current model design elements and APM overlap policies that indirectly hinder and directly disincentivize cross-model alignment, defines key...
WASHINGTON (March 30, 2022) In 2020, the advancing journey toward health care delivery system transformation – moving from reimbursement for volume to paying for value – came head-to-head with a global pandemic. In the face of COVID-19, the field witnessed value-based payment’s effects in real-time,...
“What is Health Care Value?” is a series that highlights the positive impact value-based payment models have had on consumers, patients, providers, and the system as a whole. The series uses statements primarily made during the inaugural Health Care Value Week, which took place in...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force filed two comment letters with HHS/CMS on proposed rulemaking for the CY 2023 Medicare Advantage program (CMS-4192-P), as well as the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year 2023 for Medicare Advantage (CMS-2022-0021). TASK FORCE RESPONSE SUMMARY TO THE...
From 2020 – 2021, the Health Care Transformation Task Force – with support from the Commonwealth Fund – created and ran the Maternal Health Hub (MHH or The Hub). Over the course of that project, the Task Force led a valuable dialogue to identify and...
WASHINGTON (March 1, 2022) The new year is off to an exciting start for the Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) with the addition of four new members and staffing updates. In late January, the Task Force Board approved four new members: Blue...
Today, HCTTF sent CMMI a letter with recommendations for improving the model evaluation and certification process. The letter was informed by feedback from HCTTF members and discussions the Task Force held with outside experts and representatives from CMS in the summer of 2021. Some of...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force along with 221 additional organizations signed a letter urging HHS Secretary Becerra to “fix, don’t end” the Direct Contracting (DC) Model. This letter is in response to recent calls from Capitol Hill to cancel the CMMI model. Rather than...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force provided written comments to the CMS Innovation Center in response to its February 9 Listening Session “Incorporating Beneficiary Perspectives into Model Testing, Implementation, and Evaluation". The Task Force comments took the form of responses to the three questions posed...