General Surgery Coding Alert - 2010 Issue 43
Medicare Policy: New CMS Center Wants Your Advice on Changing Its Payment Policy
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Article Overview
This article covers CMS’s launch of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and its effort to gather stakeholder feedback on delivery system reform and new payment approaches. It is relevant to health policy, Medicare stakeholders, provider organizations, and anyone tracking Affordable Care Act implementation, care coordination initiatives, and proposed models such as accountable care organizations. The article focuses on the agency’s broad reform agenda, the areas it plans to emphasize, and how the public can submit comments.
Why This Topic Matters
It helps readers understand a major CMS policy initiative that could affect how Medicare care delivery and payment models evolve, and it points to opportunities for stakeholders to weigh in early.
Article Sections
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Center for Innovation seeking input on improvements in healthcare delivery
Introduces CMS’s new innovation-focused agency and its request for ideas on improving care delivery and affordability. It frames the broader reform effort and the public comment process.
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CMS plans to focus on three areas
Summarizes the general areas CMS says it will emphasize as part of its care transformation efforts, including patient-centered care, coordination, and community health approaches.
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Accountable care organizations and public comments
Discusses stakeholder feedback on reform implementation and notes CMS’s interest in comments related to new payment and delivery models, including accountable care organizations.
What You Will Learn
- How CMS is describing the purpose of its new innovation initiative
- Which broad care delivery priorities CMS says it will emphasize
- Why stakeholder feedback is being solicited on payment and delivery reform
- How public comments can be submitted to CMS
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Health policy professionals
- Healthcare administrators
- Physicians and other clinicians
- Revenue cycle and reimbursement staff
- Payer and provider organizations
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