Health Care Transformation Task Force Announces Increase in Value-Based Payment Arrangements WASHINGTON (November 30, 2020) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, today announced that its provider and payer members...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nineteen leading healthcare organizations today called on Congressional leaders to ensure that providers who put themselves at financial risk to deliver better quality, closely coordinated and more cost-effective care continue to have strong incentives to engage in advanced value-based care models. In enacting...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force hosted a webinar discussing how innovative primary care practices and payment models have supported greater health system resiliency during the pandemic and how those innovations will be sustained. Viewers learned how Cleveland Clinic and Anthem partnered under a shared-risk...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force joined industry leaders in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to delay recent changes to the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) program for Model Year 4 (MY4) that would require participants to select...
Statement by Jeff Micklos, JD, Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) appreciates the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) focus on the evolution of Medicare’s advanced alternative payment models during its October meeting. The Task Force...
Statement of Health Care Transformation Task Force Executive Director Jeff Micklos on 2020 LAN Summit: Yesterday during the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Summit, it was inspiring to hear the stories of America’s many great health care organizations that have committed to value-based health...
The COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency swiftly disrupted the health care industry in the United States and globally. Health care systems participating in traditional fee-for-service medicine saw a precipitous drop in patients seeking care, starving them of revenue at the exact moment they needed...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed revisions to payment policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Quality Payment Program, and other revisions to Part B for CY 2021. Task Force Response...
New collaborative project develops principles and guidance for health care to achieve optimal well-being for all people To help health care clarify and transform its role in improving the health of communities and addressing equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched Raising the Bar: Health...
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...