Accountable Care
Money will support expanding partnerships with commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans.
Most agree that no matter what else may change, quality payment programs under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, or MACRA, will continue.
CMS is also testing new Person Centered Community Care, or P3C, model for dually-eligible individuals who are at least 21 and have disabilities that impair their mobility, requiring nursing home care.
Agency predicts the new opportunities will mean 25 percent of clinicians in QPP will be a part of the APMs.
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback, problems accessing capital, Paul Keckley says.
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and consultant Paul Keckley both think Trump's desire to run the country as a businessman means programs that test new payment models will remain.
Re-evaluation of CMMI possible, along with other small changes, but law is largely safe, experts say.
The president-elect has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the industry.
The partnership builds upon the success of Aetna and Banner's five-year accountable care organization relationship formed in 2011.
Providers that participate in an advanced payment model can earn up to 5 percent in bonuses for the 2017 performance year.