Medicare Payment Model Experimentation Under Biden Administration ‘Pretty Wide Open’
BY CATHY KELLY Executive Summary Former CMS acting administrator Andy Slavitt says agency’s direction during Biden administration depends on nominee, but trust fund’s looming insolvency will be ‘an issue you can’t avoid.’ The president’s priorities around health equity, racial justice and mental health will make their way into CMS policy and demonstration models, Slavitt suggests.
18 / January 2021
President-elect Joe Biden’s selections to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation may have fairly wide latitude in selecting what Medicare payment demonstrations to advance, according to former CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt. “The White House will have a set of policy views and whatever they don’t have specific views on, those are the things that are left up to the department and the agency people,” Slavitt told the J.P. Morgan annual health care conference on 12 January. He is now general partner with the venture capital firm Town Hall Ventures. “It’s not clear whether or not there will be particularly strong views emanating from Biden himself about bundled payments and so forth,” he pointed out. “What that implies to me is that we should watch closely who gets picked to run CMS, who gets picked to run
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