Less than a month before election day, the Democratic and Republican candidates for president are dueling over home-based care plans. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on “The View” this week a proposal that would allow home care to be administered through traditional Medicare. On the same day, former President Donald Trump and his campaign released […]
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. The Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), which would eventually be mandatory if finalized, would have selected acute […]
The Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model is one of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) only cost-saving successes, which is why it was expanded nationwide on Jan. 1, 2023. Just six of 49 CMMI payment demonstrations have produced savings, with HHVBP standing out in a major way. HHVBP is expected to save […]
Officials from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are again touting the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model as one of the agency’s most successful programs ever. In a Health Affairs article published Thursday, top CMS officials at CMS — including Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure — looked back at a decade of alternative […]
The U.S. health care system has hit a defining moment in its shift toward value-based care, with the major decision in 2021 being an aggressive acceleration or cautious slowdown of the nation’s portfolio of alternative payment models. Liz Fowler, the new head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), has been thinking about […]
In somewhat of a surprise move, U.S. health care policymakers unveiled plans last week to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, a nine-state Medicare demonstration designed to better align reimbursement to quality of care. Despite backing from most of the home health industry, the HHVBP Model — first implemented in 2016 — had […]
In April 2019, federal health care officials unveiled a new direct-contracting payment model to accelerate the shift toward value-based care for U.S. primary care providers. The goal of that model — which has 51 entities already signed up — was to bring a private-sector approach to risk-sharing arrangements in traditional Medicare. The U.S. Centers for […]
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is in need of a “course correction,” top U.S. health care officials believe. And part of that may include a national expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model. Created under the Affordable Care Act, CMMI — also known as the CMS Innovation Center — supports the […]
Bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill on Monday that would increase oversight and require more transparency from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) branch that tests new payment models and delivery options. The bill, dubbed the “Strengthening Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid Act,” could handcuff […]
Thanks to leadership changes at the federal level, the evolution of Medicare Advantage (MA) and a seemingly constant flow of new value-based payment models, providers should begin to plan for the end of fee-for-service Medicare. That’s according to LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Bruce Greenstein, who discussed the future of […]
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