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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. Create Financial Incentives within Primary Care for Specialist Engagement.