The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting input to help develop a potential mode for direct provider contracting.
A direct provider contract model would allow providers to take further accountability for the cost and quality of a designated population in order to achieve better beneficiary outcomes. Such a model would have the potential to enhance the doctor-patient relationship by eliminating administrative burden for clinicians and providing increased flexibility to give the high-quality care that is most appropriate for their patients, thus improving quality while reducing expenditures.
View more details about this request for information. Please submit comments to the CMS Innovation Center at DPC@cms.hhs.gov by 11:59 pm EDT, May 25, 2018.
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CMS has also released comments previously submitted by patients, clinicians, innovators, and others in response to the CMS Innovation Center's New Direction request for information (RFI) from last fall. The goal was to collect ideas on a new direction for the agency’s Innovation Center to promote patient-centered care and test market driven reforms that: empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. The Innovation Center is a central focus of the Administration’s efforts to accelerate the move from a healthcare system that pays for volume to one that pays for value and encourages provider innovation.
The responses focused on a number of areas that are critical to enhancing quality of care for beneficiaries and decreasing unnecessary cost, such as increased physician accountability for patient outcomes, improved patient choice and transparency, realigned incentives for the benefit of the patient, and a focus on chronically ill patients. In addition to the themes that emerged around the RFI’s guiding principles and eight model focus areas, the comments received in response to the RFI also reflected broad support for reducing burdensome requirements and unnecessary regulations. Learn more and view the public comments.
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