The Health Care Transformation Task Force filed comments on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services draft Strategic Plan for CY 2022-2026, offering specific support related to Strategic Goal #1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Health Care. The letter...
The Medicare Advantage program provides a unique platform to advance value-based payment and care delivery arrangements, including advanced risk opportunities for high-performing providers. It has also served as a foundation for building system-level resiliency during challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Health Care Transformation...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force developed a comprehensive briefer for industry stakeholders on the supplemental benefits offered in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The three-page briefer describes the evolution of legislation that established the range of MA supplemental benefits; the expansion of primarily health...
Statement by Jeff Micklos, Executive Director, HCTTF The Health Care Transformation Task Force (Task Force) applauds today’s release of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI or Center) white paper titled “Driving Health System Transformation – A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center’s Second Decade.”...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force wrote a letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with recommendations for driving health equity and affordability through value-based payment. This letter aligns with the priorities and perspectives conveyed in...
Health care is expensive and bending the health care cost curve has been an objective of health care policy reforms for decades. The most recent reform efforts have focused on alternative payment models (APMs) designed to reward the efficacy and quality of care rather than...
WASHINGTON (September 28, 2021) – Today, the Health Care Transformation Task Force released a new resource to assist health care payer and provider efforts to form successful Alternative Payment Model (APM) arrangements. The resource, titled Building Better Partnerships: A Facilitation Guide for Successful Value Based...
Successful value-based contracting arrangements rely on payers and providers accurately assessing needs, identifying resources, building relationships, and negotiating mutually beneficial contracts. Since our launch in 2014, the Task Force has worked to develop practical resources designed to support organizations in implementing successful value-based payment (VBP)...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force responded to a Request for Information opportunity from the Congressional Social Determinants of Health Caucus. The Congressional Caucus - led by Rep Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04), Rep GK Butterfield (NC-01), and Rep Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) -...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force wrote a letter to the Director of the Center for Medicare, Dr. Meena Seshamani, encouraging CMS to leverage the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to further advance provider adoption of Alternative Payment Models (APM) across the U.S. The letter...