Health equity is an important part of driving health care quality and ensuring that people have access to the care they need. In 2025, health equity is facing headwinds. While the implementation of health equity strategies has always faced challenges, the current political context puts...
Specialty participation in value-based care (VBC) is a strategic priority for providers, purchasers, payers, and policymakers. Specialty care continues to drive a high proportion of health care spending, making specialist engagement key to achieving the goals of VBC: improving access, quality, and equity, while reducing...
Health and health care are central to each person’s ability to live well and should not be dependent on a person’s socioeconomic status or identity – whether racial, ethnic, linguistic, or based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Addressing disparities in health care access, quality,...
Advancing health equity is a critical element of health care quality that directly ties to improved patient experiences and outcomes. Efforts to promote health equity reflect a moral imperative and can reduce health care costs through effective care management, which in turn helps decrease avoidable...
WASHINGTON (May 7, 2024) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force has developed a resource identifying principles to increase health equity within current and future value-based care (VBC) models. The Task Force is committed to promoting health equity in the United States and VBC offers...
The Task Force developed a comprehensive set of recommendations in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Request for Information on Episode-based Payment Models. The Task Force’s policy communication to CMS focused on the following topics: (1) the types of services included...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force submitted comments on the FY 2024 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule (CMS-1785-P). The Task Force letter focused on the following: HVBP HEALTH EQUITY ADJUSTMENT: HCTTF supports the creation of a...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force’s Maternal Health Hub, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, is pleased to release “Evolving the Maternal Health Quality Measurement Enterprise to Support the Community-Based Maternity Model.” This issue brief examines the historical emphasis on clinical quality measurement in maternity care...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force submitted comments to the Center for Medicare at CMS on the CY 2024 Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Advance Notice. The Task Force’s comments focus on policy proposals related to the Star Ratings program, including proposals on the...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force’s Maternal Health Hub, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, convened a meeting of maternity subject matter experts and CMS/CMMI leadership in 2022 to discuss payment and delivery strategies that would support a maternity model that addresses the ongoing racial and...