Home Health & Hospice Week

Expect more Value-Based Care reimbursement models in your future.

During the Federation of American Hospitals' annual policy conference, new Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said "HHS is focused on four key priorities: giving consumers greater control over health information through interoperable and accessible health IT; encouraging transparency from payers and providers; using experimental models in Medicare and Medicaid to drive value and quality throughout the entire system; and removing government burdens that impede this transformation," reports law firm Hall Render. "The overall goal of these initiatives is to shift to value-based care."

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently launched its myHealthEData initiative (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XXVII, No. 10). And CMS Administrator Seema Verma highlighted the agency's "Meaningful Measures" program to focus on the highest priority measures for measurement and improvement in the most recent Patients Over Paperwork monthly newsletter.