CMS Releases Report to Congress on CMMI

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new report to Congress prepared by the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) highlighting its achievements since its start in 2010 and laying out plans for implementation of future models. In conjunction with the report to Congress, Dr. Patrick Conway, Acting CMS Principal Deputy Administrator, published a blog post on the CMS website, highlighting the CMMI. According to both the report and the blog post: Over 30 new payment models have been launched over the past six years; Investments in electronic medical records and a data and analytics infrastructure are sparking a new set of innovative companies; The CMS Innovation Center’s portfolio of models has attracted participation from a broad array of health care providers, states, payers, and other partners. An estimated 18 million individuals, including CMS beneficiaries and individuals with private insurance included in multi-payer models, have been impacted by, have received care, or will soon be receiving care furnished by more than 207,000 health care providers participating in CMS Innovation Center payment and service delivery models and initiatives. These models are delivering care to people in every state across the nation; Medicare exceeded – earlier than predicted – the goal to tie more than 30 percent of fee-for-service payments by the end of 2016 through alternative payment models to quality and cost metrics. Medicare is on pace to reach 50 percent ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - Category: American Health Authors: Source Type: blogs