tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 5

Value-Based Payment Timeline: What To Expect & When

CMS wants transition to occur in the next one to three years. Moving the Medicare program from a fee-for-service payment model to a value- or quality-based structure may seem like a massive undertaking — and it is. But the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) isn’t shying away from these ambitious goals, nor is it wasting any time in implementing the changes. Here’s CMS’s projected timeline for the Medicare payment transformation: By the end of 2016, CMS plans to: Tie 30 percent of Medicare FFS payments in Part A and Part B to quality or...

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