The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last month a competitive funding opportunity for States to design and test multi-payer payment and delivery models that deliver high-quality health care and improve health system performance. Under the State Innovation Models initiative, states can apply for either Model Testing awards or Model Design awards.
Multi-Year Commitment to CMS Innovation Center's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative in New York and Ohio
Aetna joined the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Innovation Center and 500 primary care physicians nationwide in launching a sweeping new medical home program set to begin this fall. The multi-year Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative aims to improve the quality and cost of health care by improving millions of Americans' access to excellent primary care.
In support of more effective, more affordable, higher quality health care, 500 primary care practices in seven regions have been selected to participate in a new partnership between payers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state Medicaid agencies, commercial health plans, self-insured businesses, and primary care providers.
WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced today that physicians working with four of its affiliated health plans have been selected to participate in a groundbreaking initiative to advance primary care and improve the accessibility and affordability of quality health care through a partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Join us at the NASHP Conference on October 15-17, 2012, in Baltimore, Maryland. The agenda will feature more than 20 carefully crafted sessions and 120 health care policy experts speaking on topics such as Medicaid, Long Term and Chronic Care, Exchanges, CHIP, and more. Dr.
TransforMED, a Leawood organization that works with physician practices to better coordinate patient care, has received a $21 million grant to redesign primary care in Kansas and 10 other states.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced the award to TransforMED, a subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which also is based in Leawood.In total, the department awarded 81 grants worth a total of $722 million to projects it said attempted to improve care or delivery and save money.
With or without the health reform law, a majority of states have established delivery system qualifications and payment policies to promote Medicaid program medical homes.
But the health reform law has added incentives to push providers who were previously undecided to get on board with transforming their care delivery.
Twenty-six states over the past several years have adopted policies to make payments to healthcare providers that meet medical home standards, said Mary Takach, program director, National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP).
Exclusive of the health reform law, a majority of states have established delivery system qualifications and payment policies to promote Medicaid's medical homes program.
But even not depending on the Affordable Care Act, those proactive states have found the health reform law’s incentives are useful to push providers who were previously undecided to get on board with transforming their care delivery.
