The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are forming a new committee to “restore patient-driven care.”
The group, to be called the “Federal Healthcare Advisory Committee,” will consist of “… experts charged with delivering strategic recommendations directly to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to improve how care is financed and delivered across Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Health Insurance Marketplace.”
As described in a CMS news release, the scope of the committee’s work will encompass:
- Actionable policy initiatives to promote chronic disease prevention and management;
- Opportunities for a regulatory framework of accountability for safety and outcomes that reduce unnecessary red tape and allow providers to focus on improving patient health;
- Levers to advance a real-time data system, enabling a new standard of excellence in care, rapid claims processing, rapid quality measurement, and rewards;
- Structural opportunities to improve quality for the most vulnerable in the Medicaid program; and
- Sustainability of the Medicare Advantage program, identifying opportunities to modernize risk adjustment and quality measures to assess and improve health outcomes.
CMS is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the advisory committee, especially “(i)ndividuals with expertise in chronic disease prevention and management, federally administered health care financing, and delivery system reform…” Nominations will be accepted until September 20.
Learn more about the new advisory committee and its objectives from this CMS news release, which includes a link to a formal notice that includes more specific information about submitting nominations.