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CMMI’s Accountable Care Strategy: A Perspective

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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. Click here to subscribe to future blog posts. October 10, 2024 – For several years, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

What States Should Know Before Applying to CMMI’s Innovation in Behavioral Health NOFO

Summary On June 17, 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for Innovation in Behavioral Health...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

CMMI’s Innovations in Behavioral Health: Promoting Physical and Mental Well-being

Summary- On January 18, 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Innovations in Behavioral Health (IBH), a new eight-year model focused...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Palliative Care Reimbursement, Innovation and Reform

Palliative Care Defined The term “palliative care” is often used by doctors and other health care professionals during a serious illness or toward the end of life. Federal regulations define palliative care as...more

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Policy Update: CMS Approves New York 1115 Medicaid Redesign Waiver

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On January 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the New York State (NY) 1115 Medicaid waiver “Medicaid Redesign Team” (MRT). The MRT is a long-standing waiver in NY that has continuously...more

Epstein Becker & Green

CMS Announces New Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Demonstration Model

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On January 18th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new demonstration model called the Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH) Model, which is designed to improve outcomes for adults with mental...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

CMMI Issues Report on Status of Pending Drug Models

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has provided new updates on CMS’ planned initiatives to address prescription drug costs in a blog post from Director Liz Fowler. One test, the Accelerating Clinical...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Understanding the New CMMI GUIDE Model

The CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is launching a new Alternative Payment Model (APM) focused on Dementia Care: The GUIDE model. It will launch in July 2024 and run for eight years. More details will...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMS Announces New Voluntary Multi-Payer Primary Care Model in Eight States

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The new MCP Model is a 10.5-year multi-payer model with three participation tracks that build upon previous primary care models. Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington and...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

CMMI Introduces New Multi-State Initiative Focused on Enhancing Primary Care Delivery

CMMI was established to test innovative payment and service delivery models expected to reduce expenditures and preserve or enhance care quality under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Over the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - April 2023 #2

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

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Writing a health equity plan? Don't start with your Community Needs Assessment

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Many health system leaders are developing health equity plans to participate in new value-based care payment models. The new ACO REACH payment model from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has increased...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

CMS Innovation Center’s Strategic Plan to Drive Health System Change in the Next Decade

Last month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center, or CMMI) released its long-anticipated white paper, “Innovation Strategy Center Refresh,” outlining the Innovation Center’s strategic outlook...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Day 1 Notes for the 39th Annual J.P Morgan Healthcare Conference, 2021

Sitting in the dark before 6 am in my Los Angeles house with my face lit up by yet another Zoom screen, wearing a stylish combination of sweatpants, dress shirt and last year’s JPM conference badge dangling around my neck for...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Global and Professional Options Direct Contracting Model RFA and LOI Now Active

On April 21, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) announced the CMS Primary Cares Initiative – a voluntary, risk-based initiative to transform the Medicare program’s reimbursement of primary care...more

Carlton Fields

The New “Price” of U.S. Health Care: The Future of Value-based Reimbursement Under President-elect Trump and Tom Price

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The total U.S. health care expenditure was $3.2 trillion in 2015, and is projected to grow to nearly $5.6 trillion by 2025. As our nation’s cost of care rises, both Democrats and Republicans recognize the overwhelming need to...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Repealing and Replacing the ACA: Five Developments Likely to Occur in the Years Ahead

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On the back of the 2016 United States presidential election results, the health care industry ponders how a Republican president and Congress will transform the business environment. The health care industry has a number of...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Promise to Repeal the ACA Poses Threat to MACRA Implementation

Most of the post-election discussion of the ACA has focused on how promises to repeal the law could impact the newly insured. But one priority area of the ACA that has received very little discussion is the federal...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Will Republicans Embrace CMMI’s Authority?

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) provided the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the newly created Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Delivery System Reform 2.0: Scaling Alternative Payment Models is the New Normal

For some health care providers, a pair of recent announcements made by the Obama Administration to implement mandatory alternative payment models (APMs) for home health value-based purchasing and bundled payments for hip and...more

Mintz - ML Strategies

Health Care Update - July 2015 #1

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In This Issue: - Recent Mandatory APMs Signal Evolution in Delivery Reform Efforts - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Congressional Initiatives - Upcoming...more

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Next Generation ACOs: CMMI Doubles Down on the Two-Sided Risk ACO Model

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While one part of the Affordable Care Act, exchange subsidies, hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in King v Burwell, CMS is moving forward aggressively with the evolution of a less controversial...more

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