Transforming the health care delivery system – policy options
The policy options to transform our health care delivery system now under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee include important new initiatives. Three key opportunities include payment for transitional care activities, establishment of a CMS Chronic Care Management Innovation Center, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (i.e., accountable care organizations). These 3 options (along with others in the committee’s proposal) would dramatically increase the support for and research as to how health care organizations accept greater responsibility for the health and well being of the communities they serve. An attribute woefully lacking in our current system.
You can read the Senate Finance Committee’s policy options paper here.
