Current & Emerging Payment Models

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is accepting applications through June 24 to participate in its second cohort of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center today announced the Primary Cares Initiative, which will provide primary care practices and other providers with five new payment model options under two paths – Primary Care First and Direct Contracting.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday issued a proposed rule updating payment rates for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule to update the payment rates for hospices for fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule to update the payment rates for inpatient psychiatric facilities for fiscal year 2020.
It’s getting tougher and tougher to distinguish between insurers and providers — and even more so after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas became the latest payer to move into primary care.
AHA writes to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider alternative payment solutions for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week recommended that Congress provide a 2 percent market-basket update for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2020, and replace the current hospital quality programs in 2020 with a new Hospital Value Incentive Program…
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation today announced a new payment model for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage drug plans beginning January 2020, which will test new incentives for plans, patients and providers to choose drugs with lower list prices. Plans participating in the…