The CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), in collaboration with The Lewin Group and Community Catalyst, invites you to attend an upcoming webinar:
What are the hallmarks of person-centered care? How can health plans and providers respect the needs, values, and preferences of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees while providing high-quality, seamless care? How can providers and patients work together to achieve the best outcomes possible? This webinar will examine three important strategies for achieving person-centered care:
Passed in April 2015, MACRA is one of the most significant pieces of healthcare-related federal legislation that we've seen in at least a decade. It holds enormous transformative potential for payment reform efforts, but it's also complex to understand and put into practice.
Join The Commonwealth Fund, Missouri Foundation for Health, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation (Community Catalyst) at:
The event will bring together leaders of innovative health systems across the country to talk about the connection between health care coverage and health care innovations that improve quality of care and health.
HealthDoers, an initiative led by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), & Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) are partnering to create a new learning community: The Practice Transformation Group (PTG).
In this flagship event, Stacy Donohue, NRHI Support and Alignment Network (SAN) Senior Program Manager, will facilitate a robust discussion on Primary Care bright spots.
Primary care is confronted with challenges from all sides. Primary care leaders and teams must navigate financial constriction, low workplace morale, restrictive payment models, rising health care costs, increasingly aging populations, the integration of behavioral health, and patient satisfaction. In 2017, new payment policies will also present new challenges and opportunities for today’s primary care teams. Through this case-based, executive education program, participants will learn how to successfully prepare for changes in payment and navigate challenges with ease.
The Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) is holding its Annual Spring Gala on Monday, June 5, 2017, from 6:00pm – 9:30pm at Pier Sixty - Chelsea Piers. This year’s theme is “Catalyzing Excellence in Primary Care” – a message that reflects PCDC’s goal of ensuring access to high-quality care for every person in every community. Join PCDC to support an important cause, network with our honorees, and have fun!
2017 PCDC Gala Honorees:
L. Reuven Pasternak, MD
CEO, Stony Brook University Hospital
Learn More about Submitting Measures and Activities for MIPS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the submission period for the Annual Call for Measures and Activities of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) track of the Quality Payment Program (QPP).
For 2017 National Value-Based Payment and Pay for Performance Summit will take place during a period of possible dramatic national health policy changes driven by the election of President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress. At the time that this brochure is being mailed there are more questions than answers regarding direction that national health policy will take.
