The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation intend to continue developing and introducing mandatory Medicare models with an emphasis on driving more value-based care.
That is the message delivered by CMS administrator Mehmet Oz and CMMI director Abe Sutton during a recent conference.
While the track record of CMMI’s models – both voluntary and mandatory – is not great, policymakers believe they remain the best way for government to continue encouraging health care providers to focus more on the delivery of value-based care. To date, only four of the agency’s approximately 50 models have been chosen for expansion and many are only voluntary, leaving unsuccessful participants free to drop out. The agencies are especially interested in making greater use of mandatory accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Learn more about what CMS and CMMI officials said about the future of mandatory medical models and why they are here to say from the Healthcare Dive article “CMS innovation center remains focused on mandatory models, officials say.”