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On December 18, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) Model, a voluntary accountable care organization (ACO) initiative set to launch...more
On December 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions Model (ACCESS), a 10-year voluntary alternative payment model (APM) that will pay...more
Harnessing new digital technologies to treat chronic conditions and improve health outcomes.” If you think this sounds like a goal that directly aligns with one of the administration’s top priorities, making America healthy...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently finalized a rule establishing the new Ambulatory Specialty Model (“ASM”)— a mandatory value-based payment model that could apply to nearly one-quarter of all...more
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the proposed rule for the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), formally titled CMS-1832-P....more
On Oct. 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule with comment period implementing the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The nearly 2,400 pages of...more
On Friday, October 14, 2016, CMS released the much-anticipated final rule (the “Final Rule”) implementing the Quality Payment Program (QPP), mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). ...more
On September 8, 2016, CMS announced in a blogpost that new physician payment model reforms, established in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), will begin implementation on January 1, 2017, as...more
A recent rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will bring far-reaching changes to payment models for physicians and other clinicians (including nurse practitioners, physician assistants,...more
NATIONAL - Medicare Proposes New Part B Payment System - The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 27 proposed a new rule that would transform Medicare Part B reimbursement to practitioners into...more