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The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more
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
During this session, Mara McDermott, Vice President, McDermott+Consulting, moderated a panel that discussed the current political and policymaking environment on Capitol Hill and what to watch for in 2023....more
Welcome to the Payor/Provider Convergence Series of the Health Care Law Today blog. This series is dedicated to exploring the intersection between payors and providers in the health care space; in particular, the evolving...more
The managed care space saw a number of regulatory and legislative developments in 2022 that are shaping the sector as we move further into 2023. Against this backdrop, the healthcare sector itself has continued to transform...more
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
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has long acknowledged the disparities in care and outcomes affecting the one in five Americans who live in rural areas, as well as the financial challenges faced by rural...more
CMI, CMMI, and Changing the Consumer Experience in the U.S. and China - Case Mix Index: Sitting in multiple hospital, payor and physician organization presentations at the J.P. Morgan healthcare conference this year, it is...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released several significant Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D guidance documents outlining new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) programs and...more
CMS recently proposed several important changes for the Medicare Advantage ("MA") program that relate to payment, benefit design, and new actions to combat the opioid crisis. These changes, among others, were proposed in...more
January 18, 2019, CMS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced a new payment model aimed at lowering drug prices in Medicare Part D, named the Part D Payment Modernization model (the Part D Model). In...more
This month Richard Zall, Chair of Proskauer's Health Care Department, explores developments likely to occur with respect to the Affordable Care Act as a result of the new administration. In our Rulings, Filings and...more
The Senate Finance Committee chronic care working group recently released a Policy Options Document continuing an effort that started with a hearing titled, “Chronic Illness: Addressing Patients’ Unmet Needs” in the summer of...more