CMS leaders provide update on strategy to support value-based specialty care

At the Health Affairs Forefront blog, officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provide an update on their strategy to support value-based specialty care through the CMS Innovation Center. The updates focus on efforts to enhance specialty care performance data transparency; maintain momentum on acute episode payment models and condition based models; create incentives within primary care for specialist engagement; and create incentives for specialists to affiliate with population-based models and move to value-based care.