Health Care Transformation Task Force |

16 Jul

HCTTF Report Promotes Innovative Payment Strategies to Address Maternal Health Crisis

WASHINGTON (July 16, 2019) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, today released a report which highlights the importance of expanding value-based payments to increase outcomes-driven maternity care. As...

08:00 / Releases and Announcements

16 Jul

Expanding Access to Outcomes-Driven Maternity Care through Value-Based Payment

Download the Report Read an accompanying Health Affairs blog post, "To Help Fix The Maternal Health Crisis, Look To Value-Based Payment," authored by HCTTF Senior Director Clare Pierce-Wrobel and HCTTF Senior Associate Katie Green, further describing the opportunity for policymakers to advance outcomes-driven maternity models. Read our...

25 Jun

HCTTF joins coalition letter to Rep. Suzan DelBene on Chronic Care Legislation

The Health Care Transformation Task Force joined an industry coalition letter in support of Representative Suzan DelBene's pending bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove cost-sharing responsibilities for chronic care management services under the Medicare program to ensure that more...

11:21 / Policy Communications

13 Jun

Webinar: The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Health Care Transformation

Lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches to treat, reverse and prevent chronic disease and focuses on six areas to improve health: healthful eating, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, maintaining healthy relationships, and sleep improvement. We will also hear from the...

16:30 / Webinars

03 Jun

Comments on CMS Interoperability Proposed Rule

The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) responded to the proposed policies to advance interoperability and patient access to health information. The Task Force appreciates CMS’s commitment advancing interoperable data exchange. We support the goals of giving patients ownership over their health...

13:59 / Policy Communications

30 May

HCTTF Urges CMS to Expand Next Generation ACO Model

Read the Letter Re: Permanence for the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (NGACO) Model Dear Secretary Azar: The undersigned organizations write to encourage the Department of Health and Human Services to expand the duration and scope of the NGACO model to be a permanent, voluntary offering in the...

16:31 / Policy Communications

30 May

HCTTF and Leading Industry Groups Urge CMS to Expand Next Generation ACO Model

WASHINGTON (May 30, 2019) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) and other health care industry leaders today called on the Department of Health and Human Services to expand the duration and scope of the Next Generation ACO model to be...

14:19 / Releases and Announcements

28 May

CMS Geographic Population-Based Payment Model RFI Response

In this letter, the Task Force responds to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Direct Contracting - Geographic Population-Based Payment (PBP) model Request for Information (RFI). Our perspectives shared in this letter come from Task Force members viewing themselves as potential Direct Contracting Entities...

10:56 / Policy Communications

23 May

Patient Experience Measurement Survey Brief

Download the Survey Brief The Health Care Transformation Task Force conducted a survey of health care provider and patient/consumer organizations to assess the current state of patient experience measurement. The survey asked respondents to identify the aspects of measurement they found valuable, describe the gaps in...

16:56 / All Value Models / Patient-Centered Care

23 May

Webinar: Engaging Consumers in Care Delivery

The Health Care Transformation Task Force released an implementation framework for engaging consumers in care delivery to promote ideal person-centered, value-driven health care by including patients and consumers as partners in all aspect of decision-making about their health care. The Implementation Framework provides best practices and...

10:19 / Webinars