Even as CMS rolls out new, voluntary Medicare alternative payment models, it is contemplating making participation in future models mandatory rather than voluntary, as is currently the case.
Or so Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma told a gathering in Baltimore last week.
At the heart of the idea, Verma told her audience, is that while CMS is pleased with participation in voluntary accountable care organization models, organizations are choosing to participate in ACO models they think would benefit them most while posing little or no downside financial risk. The agency may need to move away from that approach to advance its efforts to transform more of Medicare into a value-based payment program.
Learn more in the Fierce Healthcare article “Verma: Trump administration mulling mandatory payment models.”