On January 31, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a call for applications to participate in the testing of the new Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Care model. Through this new initiative, CMS will partner with groups of health care providers and suppliers – ESRD Seamless Care Organizations (ESCOs) – to test […]
In an effort to provide more effective, more affordable, higher quality health care, 45 commercial, federal and State insurers in seven markets pledged to work with the CMS to give more Americans access to quality health care at lower cost. Under the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, CMS will pay primary care practices a care management […]
New opportunities that will allow people to more easily receive care and services in their communities rather than being admitted to a hospital or nursing home were announced by HHS, who also finalized the Community First Choice rule, which is a new state plan option under Medicaid, and announced the participants in the Independence At […]