CMS: Request for Information; Episode-Based Payment Model

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on the design of a potential new episode-based payment model focused on accountability for quality and cost, health equity, and specialty integration. To further inform the development of a new model, CMS is seeking feedback on a broad set of questions related to care delivery and incentive structure alignment and six foundational components testing a new model design: clinical episodes; participants; health equity; quality measures, interoperability, and multi-payer alignment; payment methodology and structure; and model overlap. CMS expects this episode-based payment model to be implemented no earlier than 2026. Comments are due by August 17, 2023.
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