Advancing health equity is a critical element of health care quality that directly ties to improved patient experiences and outcomes. Addressing disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes is a moral imperative. It is also a smart business decision – preventing disease and avoiding emergencies...
By design, accountable care organizations (ACOs) offer opportunities for providers to better address patients’ needs that are not available in the fragmented fee-for-service system. Yet, patients in ACOs or other alternative payment models often are unaware of their inclusion in these models and the benefits...
The CY 2023 Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule included a number of new policies aimed at addressing issues in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). These include the establishment of the Advanced Incentive Payment (AIP) program to provide up-front funding for new ACOs to...
Since 2021, providers who participate in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’s (BCBS MA) Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) have received data on equity performance and support from the payer for equity improvement efforts. Starting on January 1, 2023, BCBS MA began incorporating pay-for-equity financial incentives...
The Task Force hosted part one in our “Achieving Value Through Transformation” webinar series examining the Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) waiver program in the context of evolving state-level delivery system reform innovations. In 2014, the Obama administration offered a new opportunity for...
Part 1: Using Population Health Indices to Support Health Equity in Value-Based Payment On July 13, from 3-4pm ET speakers discussed the design and use of population level health measures to improve equitable health outcomes in value-based payment models. David Rickless – geospatial analyst at the Centers...
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...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) and the Maternal Health Hub (MHH or Hub) hosted a webinar on July 19th from 1-2:30pm highlighting ways the maternal health care community is innovating to transform care delivery to address significant disparities in outcomes...
Earlier this year (2021), the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) began its second decade as an important driver of Medicare payment reform. Much has been learned in the first ten years – both about CMMI’s operations and its model portfolio – and many...