Participants, supporters, and opponents weigh in on the role of Medicare Advantage subsidiaries as program design evolves. Direct contracting (DC) is an interesting name for a CMS model that permits ...

Organizations in a discontinued Medicare accountable care model saved the program $372 million in 2022, more than five times the prior year, according to recent data from the CMS. Direct contracting ...

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for Performance Year 2022 saved the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $371.5 million and saved direct contracting entities $484.1 million, ...

On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it had redesigned the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for 2023. The Center for Medicare and ...

The Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70 million in 2021 as the Biden administration plans a major overhaul to the value-based care program next year. Recently released data from the Centers ...

The Trump administration unveiled the original direct contracting model in 2019, with the goal of coordinating primary and specialty care, while allowing access to enhanced benefits. It offered a ...

A petition with over 1,500 physician signatures is calling on HHS to end the CMS Medicare direct contracting program. The petition, which is being delivered Nov. 30 to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, ...

In 2019, Medicare quietly launched a scheme called "direct contracting," allowing insurance companies to control the health care of tens of millions of traditional Medicare and Medicare supplement ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Landmark Health and its affiliated medical groups (Landmark) today announced participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (Innovation ...

On April 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription ...