CMS plans innovative new VBP models

Editor's Note

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be unveiling new payment models centered on high-cost areas as part of ongoing efforts to advance value-based payment (VBP) care, and some models could be mandatory, the September 20 Healthcare Finance News reports.

Healthcare providers can expect reduced regulatory burdens and more effective quality measures, but CMS says they must be willing to increase their share of the risk.

How health systems participate will be up to them; CMS will not be micromanaging them, the report says.