The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be hosting a Care Innovation Summit from 8:30am – 6:00pm today in Washington D.C. to assemble representatives of health professions to discuss opportunities for collaboration that will drive action towards better care and better health at lower cost through continuous improvement. Among today’s featured speakers are Acting [...]

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Last week, Congress passed the FY 2012 Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bill that will fund the Health Centers Program to not only maintain current federal grant support for ALL existing Health Centers, it will also provide enough additional funding to extend access to care to nearly 1.5 million additional people in need of care. In [...]

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Last fall, CMS announced a new Advance Payment Model for physician-based and rural ACOs participating in the Shared Savings Program.  ACOs selected to participate in the Advance Payment Model will receive upfront payments that will be recouped from the shared savings they earn. CMS will begin 2012 with an Open Door Forum on January 5, [...]

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This morning CMS provided a template of the application for the new Advanced Payment ACO Model announced by the CMMI in the fall. Through the Advance Payment Model, selected  physician-based and rural ACOs participating in the Shared Savings Program will receive advance payments that will be recouped from the shared savings they earn. You can [...]

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