Health Affairs report suggests new HHS leadership should expand state all-payer models, fine-tune accountable care organizations.
Another report suggest value-based payment models will continue even, if in a different form, under the new administration’s governance of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Health Affairs report.
“The election of Donald Trump might change the strategy of advancing healthcare reform, but the movement toward value-based care both preceded the Affordable Care Act and has bipartisan support,” the authors said.
If Tom Price is confirmed as secretary and Seema Verma administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, the agencies will support new value-based payment models said authors David Muhlestein, Natalie Burton and Lia Winfield.
But Price has already voiced his opposition to mandatory models such as bundled payments.
CMS, which has 74 healthcare initiatives and programs in different stages of research, testing, and adoption, recently proposed to make its cardiac care bundle mandatory and said opportunities exist for bundles that consider multiple chronic conditions.
While payment innovation may continue, the agency needs to articulate its overall strategy in four focus areas, the authors said.
The first is the expansion of the population-based model and disease-specific model.
HENRY KOTULA 