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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 2: Advance Health Equity. Strategic Objective 3: Support Care Innovations.

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Back to the Future: 2023 Payment Rule Would Revert Nondiscrimination and Guaranteed Availability Provisions to Pre-Trump Forms, Returns Standardized Plan Options

Sheppard Health Law

First, issuers may only count provider incentive and bonus payments as claims expense if they are “tied to clearly defined, objectively measurable, and well-documented clinical or quality improvement standards.” Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality.