Value-based health care: the role of payors
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
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, 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
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
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule on July 25, 2016, entitled, Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs); Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model; and...more