In this letter, the Task Force identifies areas where the HHS Office of the Inspector General can mitigate the impact of the anti-kickback statute regulations on providers and health plans participating in alternative payment models to encourage better care coordination. Task Force Response Summary Create new...
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 Here Chairman Collins, Ranking Member Casey, and Members of the Senate Special Committee...
Value-based payment and care delivery reforms must be designed with sustainability – across all stakeholder groups – in mind, if effective delivery system reform is to take hold. In recognition of this, the 2017 Health Care Transformation Task Force Board of Directors set “achieving sustainability”...
The HCTTF supports the goals of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and Quality Payment Program to reward high value, high quality providers through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and encourage adoption of Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). The Task Force is also...
The Task Force has continued work to develop actionable, market-based strategies for better alignment between ACOs and bundled payment programs. This letter details our findings from this process and present recommendations for CMS to consider where model modifications and guidance would afford providers the appropriate...
In this letter, the Task Force identifies areas where CMS can mitigate the impact of the Stark law on providers participating in alternative payment models to encourage better care coordination. There are desired changes that will take an act of Congress, while CMS can accomplish...
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 imperative for the health care industry to innovate towards a value-based system remains more important than ever. The goal of affordable, high-quality health care that best meets the needs of consumers and patients is clinically, economically, and morally indisputable. As the bipartisan passage of...
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...