In a Feb. 14 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, hundreds of healthcare organizations urged HHS to refine the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for Medicare patients and providers ...

In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for Performance Year 2022 saved the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $371.5 million and saved direct contracting entities $484.1 million, ...

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the next phase of the Federal Government’s enterprise approach, the Better Contracting Initiative(BCI). The BCI is a four-pronged initiative to ...

The Biden administration has come under pressure in recent weeks to modify, or even pull back entirely, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Direct Contracting Model, which was originally ...

The Biden administration is redesigning the controversial Direct Contracting Model to add new requirements to tackle health equity and ease progressive lawmakers’ concerns over the role of private ...

This 2022 survey of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) shows significant growth in non-Medicare value-based contracts and in contracts with downside risk. Objectives: To measure the ...