Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Fact Sheets

These are fact sheets from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about its proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Continue reading →

Prevention Institute: How Can We Pay for a Healthy Population?

This issue brief from the Prevention Institute describes strategies to integrate funding for population health improvement within other health care Continue reading →

H.R. 2: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Here is the full text of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, which repealed the Sustainable Continue reading →

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Goal of 50% Medicare Provider Payments Linked to Alternate Payment Models by 2018

In this January 2015 blog posting, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced departmental goals of linking 30% of Continue reading →

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Proposed Medicare Bundled Payments for Hip and Knee Replacements

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a proposed change in its Medicare fee-for-service payments that would use a Continue reading →

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: 11 States Awarded State Innovation Model Implementation Grants; 17 States, DC and 3 Territories Receive Planning Grants

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced Round Two awards for the State Innovation Model, authorized by section Continue reading →

Peterson Center on Healthcare Launched to Transform U.S. Healthcare

Today the Peter G. Peterson Foundation announced the launch of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, a new organization dedicated to transforming Continue reading →

Advocacy to Make Increased Medicaid Primary Care Payments Permanent

National primary care physician organizations, including the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American Academy of Continue reading →