Letter to Senate Finance Chronic Care Working Group
“Our comments are based on the considerable body of work produced through BPC’s Health Project, Health Innovation Initiative, and Prevention Initiative, including:
- A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment [Apr. 2013] and a series of four delivery system reform white papers focused on ways to accelerate the transition from fee-for-service to sustainable, higher-value alternative payment models (APMs). Recommendations are intended to build on early APM implementation, improve the viability of APMs, and make progress toward the long-term vision for the health care system presented in A Bipartisan Rx. [Aug. 2014 ? Apr. 2015]
- Multi-stakeholder recommendations on connected care [Dec. 2013], and An Oversight Framework for Assuring Patient Safety in Health Information Technology [Feb. 2013]
- A Prevention Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care in America [May 2015]
“In general, we believe the transition away from fee-for-service to more coordinated systems of care will benefit beneficiaries across the Medicare program, and particularly those living with complex, chronic conditions. With better payment incentives in place, APM providers are offering new services such as care coordination and patient education and are often focusing these interventions on those with multiple-chronic conditions and other identified risk factors to achieve quality and patient satisfaction targets and generate savings for beneficiaries and the Medicare program.”
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