Toward Accountable Payment
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Welcome to Toward Accountable Payment, the official blog of the Medicare Payment Innovation Project. The project is an ongoing initiative to study provider payment reform and support organizations engaging in innovative payment programs.
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Rob Lazerow
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on June 18, 2013 |
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Topics: Medicaid, Reimbursement, Finance, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Market Trends, Strategy
Rob Lazerow and Tom Liu
With open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges to start Oct. 1, CMS is focused on securing the infrastructure and funding needed to offset the cost of coverage expansion.
This includes implementing the ACA's cuts to both Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments—reductions the law included by arguing that providers will need less supplemental funding as the number of uninsured individuals declines.
To address a range of questions we've received from members about CMS's recent two proposed rules on the DSH payment cuts, here's a brief summary of each and four takeaways for hospitals and health systems.
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Four takeaways from the proposed rules for Medicare and Medicaid DSH cuts
on June 5, 2013 |
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Topics: Bundled Payments, Market Trends, Strategy, Shared Savings Model, Pay-for-Performance, Risk-Based Contracting
Jordan Stone
We've already received over 110 responses from senior health care executives to our 2013 Accountable Payment Survey—an ongoing benchmarking initiative to demonstrate where our industry stands in the move toward payment reform, and where its leaders expect to go in the coming years.
While the group appears similar in size and composition to the 2011 participant pool, initial data suggests that attitudes toward risk have changed significantly.
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Survey results: Percentage of providers taking on risk doubled since 2011
Rob Lazerow on May 23, 2013 |
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Topics: Payer and Regulatory Policy, Market Trends, Strategy
Rob Lazerow and Aliya Noormohamed
Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius introduced a second round of Health Care Innovation Awards, which will provide up to $1 billion in grant funding to support projects designed to lower costs and improve care delivery for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollees.
In the first round of funding, 107 awardees received nearly $900 million to implement proposed initiatives. Read "Health Care Innovation Challenge: Key Takeaways from 107 Awardees" for our full analysis of the first round of grant awardees.
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CMS announces second round of innovation grant funding
