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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation ("CMMI") announced the Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-Based Approaches Through Evidence ("MAHA ELEVATE") Model, designed to improve...more
House and Senate appropriations leaders have reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to keep the federal government funded through fiscal year 2026 while advancing several long-anticipated health care policy changes....more
J.P. Morgan continues to surprise us at lunch, with the Mayor of San Francisco sharing on Monday an update on recent improvements in the city. Then on Tuesday at the Grand Ballroom lunch, it was the first episode of my...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) (Innovation Center) has unveiled a series of new models related to the administration’s focus on improving the health of...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services’ (“CMS”) Innovation Center will begin accepting applications on January 12 for the recently announced Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (“ACCESS”) Model—a...more
Happy New Year! If 2025 was any indication of what 2026 will be like, we have an extremely busy year ahead in the regulatory world. And no area was busier in 2025 than the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...more
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently announced a voluntary, 10-year Medicare payment and service delivery model: Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model....more
The market for maternal healthcare offers providers, payors and investors an opportunity to address pressing social needs while unlocking business growth and expansion. U.S. maternal mortality remains unacceptably high while...more
The final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2026 has now taken effect. Under the new rule, Center for Medicare Services (CMS) finalized two separate Medicare conversion factors depending on participation in a qualifying...more
On December 23, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Better Approaches to Lifestyles and Nutrition for Comprehensive hEalth (BALANCE) Model, a voluntary, alternative payment model (APM),...more
On December 1, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions), a voluntary, 10-year initiative aimed at improving care for...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has announced the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) Model — a 10-year initiative designed to advance value-based care for Medicare beneficiaries,...more
On December 19, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) proposed two mandatory Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) drug payment models to test whether alternative methods for calculating...more
On December 11, 2025, CMS issued a proposed rule to update and revise the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model for Performance Year (PY) 2 (the Proposed Rule). The IOTA Model is a 6-year mandatory alternative...more
During the Nelson Mullins 2025 Annual Value-Based Care Forum, Navigating Opportunities in a Value-Driven World, virtual attendees submitted questions for the panelists to answer. Below are the panelists’ responses, which...more
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 Oct. 31, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (Final Rule), which outlines the changes to payments under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for...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
On October 31, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which finalized the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), targeting...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), through the CMS Innovation Center (“CMMI”), has announced the ACCESS Model—Advancing Clinical Care, Equity and System Sustainability, a national demonstration model...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
We are still waiting for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue the remaining three calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare payment rules....more
On November 6, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release announcing the voluntary “GENErating cost Reductions for U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS)” payment model, which will implement most...more
On Oct. 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, wherein it established the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) – a mandatory alternative payment model...more