For decades, chronic disease management in Medicare has been hampered by a fee-for-service payment system that rewards volume and activity rather than true clinical improvement. This model created ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is testing an outcome-aligned payment model known as the Advancing Chronic Care ...

CMS is developing the ACCESS Model, a new national program that will pay Medicare Part B–enrolled organizations based on chronic-condition outcomes, care coordination and social-needs integration, ...