March 26, 2019: MGMA joins coalition calling for Improving Transparency for Innovation Center Models

March 26, 2019   
 
The Honorable Seema Verma
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
US Department of Health & Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201 

Adam Boehler
Deputy Administrator
Director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
US Department of Health & Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201 

 Re: Improving Transparency for Innovation Center Models 

Dear Administrator Verma and Deputy Administrator Boehler: 

The undersigned organizations write to encourage the CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) to continue to improve transparency and stability as you develop a successful portfolio of payment models.  While we appreciate steps the agency has taken, such as hosting stakeholder roundtable discussions to gather input, we ask that the Innovation Center move to a more methodical and public process for releasing and updating payment models. 

Like you, our organizations and the members they represent are committed to the move to alternative payment models (APMs), including those with an emphasis on performance-based risk.  We agree that many provider groups of various sizes and composition across the country are prepared to make the leap to greater levels of financial and clinical accountability to improve the health of America’s seniors.  Provider organizations that have taken the first step toward twosided risk models have successfully reduced costs and improved care for patients. We are excited to continue to work with the Innovation Center to pursue new models, many of which will feature increasing levels of financial risk and reward.  We are confident that this is the right direction to create a sustainable healthcare delivery system for the future.  

 

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