Current & Emerging Payment Models
The AHA Sept. 9 urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to work with Congress on providing a pay increase for physicians in 2025 and develop a long-term plan for sustainable physician payment.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Sept. 5 published a list of participants for the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. TEAM is a mandatory payment model that will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for five types of surgical episodes.
The AHA July 16 urged the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation not to implement its newly proposed Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model as currently constructed, expressing concerns about many of its design features.
The AHA July 15 commented to Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., responding to a request for information based on the Pay PCPs Act, legislation designed to improve support and pay for primary care providers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 2 announced that Maryland, Vermont and Connecticut will be the first participants in the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 8 announced over 400 participants in a new model focused on improving dementia care.
The AHA submitted comments June 26 to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health for a hearing about improving value-based care.
The AHA June 14 sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, responding to questions included in a white paper the committee wrote on chronic care through physician payment and policy options regarding Medicare Part B.
The AHA expressed concerns June 10 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about its proposed Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), saying it "is proposing to mandate a model that has significant design flaws, and as proposed, places too much risk on providers with too…