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...
The Task Force continues to advocate for full transparency in all matters related to bundled payment programs, including the specific methodology and data for setting target prices and the way issues such as attribution are handled. We also believe that bundled payments can promote greater...
The HCTTF agrees with much of what is included in the White Paper. Thematically, we urge the LAN to sharpen the focus of the white paper to reflect what’s best for patients, and not necessarily what’s best for providers in particular situations. Task Force Response Summary 1....
The HCTTF fully supports all elements of the patient attribution white paper. In many respects, the white paper’s substance is entirely consistent with existing Task Force policy on patient attribution. We are pleased that the HCTTF is so aligned with the Work Group’s thinking on...
As part of the policymaking framework for addressing chronic care patients, the specific health needs and acuity of services for specific patients can change from time to time, and the particular focus of chronic care services should be tailored to the specific conditions of the...