Value-based health care: the role of payors
On October 13, 2022, CMS announced it will extend the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced) for two years, with the opportunity for new entities to join the model beginning in 2024. CMS also...more
Executive Summary - Employers sponsoring group health plans face the ever-growing challenge of rising health care costs, and the increasing expenses they place on the plans and their enrollees alike. To respond to these...more
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule (the Rule) on April 29, 2021 extending and making various revisions to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (the CJR Model). The CJR Model...more
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
This is the first in a series of alerts from Seyfarth’s Health Law practice highlighting significant changes in health care regulations and policy as providers and other industry participants enter 2018. ...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a final rule that cancels the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and the Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model, each of which were slated to begin...more
CMS released its Final Rule canceling the Episode Payment Model (EPM) and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model (CR Incentive Payment Model). This was an expected result following August's proposed rule to cancel...more
On November 27, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a guidance entitled, Pediatric Information for X-ray imaging Device Premarket Notifications. The guidance outlines FDA’s rationale regarding information that...more
On September 20, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released an informal request for information (“RFI”) seeking stakeholder feedback on the future direction of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid...more
On August 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that, if finalized, would (A) cancel the mandatory Episode Payment Models (“EPM Models”) and Cardiac...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) to scale back its mandatory bundled payment programs. Under the Proposed Rule, CMS would cancel the episode payment...more
In a proposed rule published Tuesday, August 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its intention to roll back a handful of payment models introduced under the Obama Administration. If...more
On August 17, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump administration published a proposed rule to cancel Medicare’s hospital Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR)...more
On August 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that would significantly roll back two of CMS’s mandatory alternative payment models. The Proposed Rule would make continued...more
After initially delaying the implementation of Episode Payment Models (EPMs) earlier this year, CMS issued a Proposed Rule on August 17 that proposes to cancel all EPMs and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Program (CR)...more
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule last week regarding the cancellation of three bundled payment models and an incentive payment model while also reducing the scope of a third...more
On August 15, 2017, CMS announced a proposed rule to cancel the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model scheduled to begin January 1, 2018, and to rescind the regulations...more
Last week, CMS announced in proposed rulemaking its proposal to cancel the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model. It also announced plans to revise certain aspects of the...more
On August 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule which would cancel the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and the Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model, each of which...more
CMS recently announced that the effective start dates for episodes of care under the Episode Payment Model (EPM), Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model (CR) and the revisions to the Comprehensive Care for Joint...more
This most recent delay raises questions concerning how the Trump administration intends to implement value-based payment in the Medicare program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed again the...more
CMS has announced that the effective date for the Final Rule for certain EPMs will be delayed until May 20, 2017. This is the second delay for the Final Rule. CMS previously pushed the effective date from February 18 to March...more
On March 21, 2017, CMS issued the anticipated delay related to the new Episode Payment Model (EPM) bundled payment program regulations that were finalized in January. The rule, Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode...more
In the February 17, 2017 Federal Register, CMS announced that it will delay implementation of several bundled payment initiatives until March 21, 2017. The Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs),...more
CMS issued a final rule on January 3, 2017, implementing three new episode payment models (EPMs) and a Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model under the authority of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation...more