10/20/2021

Medicare Is Sticking With Mandatory Demonstration Models for Now

WASHINGTON -- Medicare is going to continue using mandatory payment models for physicians, said Elizabeth Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), at an event Tuesday sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy and the APCO Worldwide public relations firm.

"We have two mandatory models making their way through the regulatory process -- the comprehensive joint replacement model, which we've proposed to become mandatory ... and then the radiation oncology model," Fowler noted.  READ MORE