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...
“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...
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 (December 28, 2021) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (Task Force), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers, and patient organizations, today announced an updated value-based transformation goal of “75 percent by 2025.” In January 2015, the Task Force formed based on...
In 2021 the Health Care Transformation Task Force released a paper examining the long-term trends in projected and actual health care spending from 2000 to 2020. The paper highlighted slowing trends in health spending growth over the past decade and discussed the potential factors driving...
WASHINGTON (December 15, 2021) – 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 reported having 61 percent of their business in value-based payment...
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...
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...