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A Buffet of Hospital Alternative Payment Models: Will Too Many Entrees Be Overwhelming?

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Over the last several months, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has introduced several alternative payment models (APMs) geared toward...more

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CMS Announces New MSSP Model Aimed at Improving Primary Care

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model or Model), a new voluntary payment model for primary care furnished through low-revenue Accountable Care...more

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Key Value-Based Care Developments to Watch in 2024

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The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more

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Behavioral Health: CMS Innovation Model Outlines Changes for the Delivery of Integrated Behavioral and Physical Health Care

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On January 18, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new innovation model designed to improve quality of care and behavioral and physical health outcomes for Medicaid and Medicare patients with...more

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Health Care Stakeholders Support Passage of The Value in Health Care Act

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Seventeen healthcare stakeholder groups have come together to support The Value in Health Care Act, a bill that a bipartisan coalition reintroduced in Congress this summer. The bill supports a shift in the medical care...more

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The MIPS Effect: A Surprise Twist in Estimating Medicare Payments for Clinicians Next Year

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As physician groups and other stakeholders work to finalize comment letters on the calendar year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed regulation by September 11, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more

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CMS Innovation Center Requests Comments for New Episode-Based Payment Model

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Request for Information (RFI) on July 18 regarding the design of a future, episode-based payment model on behalf of CMS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid...more

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CMS Issues 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule on July 7, 2022, which impacts Medicare Part B payments starting Jan. 1,...more

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[Webinar] Levers of Change: Remapping the Health Care Landscape - March 9th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

President Biden set an ambitious health care agenda in his campaign and maintained that focus as he took office. The Biden administration has expressed a strong commitment to “protect and build on the Affordable Care Act,...more

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CMS releases guidance on Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (“HHVBP”) Model

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) that advances the shift from paying for Medicare home health services based on volume to a system that pays based on...more

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Supporting the Future of Primary Care in California Through Aligned Hybrid Payment Models - A Call to Action

Introduction - The vision of primary care as the foundation for all health care is one shared by many who work in and around the U.S. health care system. Patients, policymakers, providers, payers and purchasers generally...more

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CMS Releases CY 2022 OPPS and ASC Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 19, 2021, released its calendar year (CY) 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Proposed...more

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COVID-19: K&L Gates Triage: Alternative Payment Models: Tied to an Improved COVID-19 Response?

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In this week's episode, Gabe Scott and Steve Pine discuss recent data showing how health systems participating in Alternative Payment Models compare to other health systems in responding to the COVID-19 crisis, and discuss...more

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CMS Updates Healthcare Quality Reporting Exceptions in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

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As discussed in a previous alert from March 24, 2020, due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would temporarily ease quality reporting...more

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CMS Announces CMMI Milestones and Updates

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CMS recently announced updates and milestones for several programs run by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). CMMI is the internal CMS agency responsible for developing and testing new health care payment...more

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Global and Professional Options Direct Contracting Model RFA and LOI Now Active

On April 21, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) announced the CMS Primary Cares Initiative – a voluntary, risk-based initiative to transform the Medicare program’s reimbursement of primary care...more

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CMS Issues 2020 MPFS and QPP Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Nov. 1, 2019, published the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 Final Rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). The MPFS dictates Medicare rates and policies under Part B,...more

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K&L Gates Triage: Quality Payment Program Updates in the CY2020 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule - Part 3

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In this week’s episode, Steve Pine presents the last installment of our three part series addressing the CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) updates in the CY2020 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule. In this episode, Mr....more

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CMS Proposes New Payment Model for Radiation Oncology

• On July 18, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) published a proposal to implement a new mandatory Medicare payment model in select geographic...more

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CMS Launches New Primary Care Payment Models

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On April 22, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced four new voluntary payment models that could allow primary care practitioners like physicians or advanced practice nurses, hospitals or other...more

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CMS Announces New Opportunities to Test Integrated Care Models for Dually Eligible Individuals

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On April 26, 2019, CMS issued a letter to State Medicaid Directors (2019 Letter) inviting states to partner with CMS in one of three new opportunities to test state-driven approaches to integrating care for individuals who...more

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Medicare Unveils New Voluntary Primary Care Models

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced five new, voluntary value-based payment models for primary care: Primary Care First and Direct Contracting. Applications are expected to open shortly, and both...more

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CMS’s New “Primary Cares Initiative” Places Primary Care at the Center of the Shift to Value-Based Care

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On April 22, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two sweeping new payment innovation models under the Primary Cares Initiatives. The models will seek to incentivize primary care and other...more

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CMS Announces New Initiative for Value-Based Transformation of Primary Care

On April 22, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced the CMS Primary Cares Initiative (the “Initiative”), which consists of new payment...more

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CMS Brings Changes to Nursing Home Compare and Five-Star Ratings in April 2019

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On April 11, 2019, CMS announced updates to Nursing Home Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System. The Nursing Home Compare website contains data, including quality measures and staffing information, for more than...more

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