We believe clinical episode-related payments can promote high-quality, high-value and transparent care for Medicare beneficiaries and encourage coordination among providers. These outcomes can be achieved while ensuring access to care and freedom of choice for Medicare beneficiaries, regardless of the severity of their illnesses. Moreover,...
The HCTTF supports moving Medicare payment for physician services to a value-based formula that is person-centered and rewards for Triple Aim outcomes of better care, lower cost, and better health. We believe that the Medicare Shared Savings Program plays a significant role in supporting these...
The Task Force supports innovative, person-centered, value-based payment models and recognizes the importance of data sharing to drive improvements in cost and quality under these models. We believe the principles put forth in the LAN Population-Based Payment Work Group’s white paper are directionally consistent with...
The HCTTF supports the policies of MACRA and moving Medicare payment for physician services to a value-based formula that focuses on quality, resource use, clinical practice improvement, and meaningful use of certified EHR technology under the Medicare Incentive Payment System. As a major proponent of...
The Task Force supports innovative, person-centered, valued-based payment models. We applaud the Work Group’s bold step forward with proposing this type of broad-based bundle, and agree that patients may benefit greatly from comprehensive management of coronary artery disease. However, we are unable to support the...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force commends the work of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s Clinical Episode Payment Work Group on its draft White Paper on Maternity Care Framework and provides recommended refinements. Our recommended refinements to the Maternity Care Model design include 1....
The HCTTF agrees with much of what is included in the Lan’s white paper, and supports its goals to recommend ways to design and implement measurement systems in population-based payment (PBP) models. Task Force Summary Response 1. To support the long-term success and sustainability of population-based payment...
The Task Force urges Congress to include in pending opioid legislation the opportunity for health care providers and payers to access substance use disorder date from Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP data files to inform their treatment plans. With the growing level of addiction being experienced...
The Task Force supports the recommendation that the CPC Plus model be modified to allow ACO-affiliated primary care physicians (“PCPs”) to be eligible to participate in the CPC Plus model. We are not recommending changes to the practice selection criteria, merely the removal of the...
The Task Force supports many of the Proposed Rule’s policies, several of which we have advocated for in past comment letters. In this letter we provide input, raise questions, and offer suggestions to CMS on the proposed changes, organized into the Proposed Rule’s three main...