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CMS Announces Strategy on Value-Based Payments for Specialty Care

Sheppard Health Law

CMS’s 2021 report explained that “[i]n 2019, Medicare beneficiaries saw an average of 50 percent more specialists in the outpatient setting than in 2000, doubling the number of physicians with whom primary care providers must coordinate care. CMS established two long-term proposals to address this element.

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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Kelley and Bollens-Lund, 2018. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year.

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