CMS has pushed back the application cycle by a year for a new rural-focused accountable care organization (ACO) model. In an email sent yesterday, CMS said it has delayed the request for applications release date from spring 2021 to spring 2022 for the ACO Transformation Track of the upcoming Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, at its meeting on Thursday, approved several Medicare policy recommendations that will appear in its June report to Congress. The congressional advisory panel will recommend that CMS simplify its approach to alternative payment models. Commissioners approved an updated version of the recommendation presented by MedPAC’s staff at last month’s meeting.
For ACOs and Direct Contracting Medical Groups adopting value-based payment models, behavioral health is often overlooked. But your patients’ unmet behavioral health issues are a big cost driver for emergency care and inpatient admissions, and they compound risk factors in disease. They also influence your patients’ adherence to treatment plans. You may believe this is a problem you can’t resolve because behavioral health is beyond the boundaries of your participating network.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health care systems around the world, and the U.S. is no exception. Observers cite a wide range of issues — from underfunded public health departments to inequitable access to care, to high levels of underlying chronic conditions that worsen outcomes — that need to be addressed to create a more sustainable post-pandemic health care system.
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