“The Trump administration is putting the brakes on a key set of goals created by the Obama administration to dramatically reduce the cost of the clunky and overpriced U.S. health-care system.”
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it’s no longer operating on the aggressive timeline laid out by the Obama administration that increasingly seeks to tie more Medicare payments to the quality of care received by the program’s beneficiaries.”
“That’s no longer the goal, a CMS spokesman told me last week. Instead, the focus is on ramping up a review of how the Obama administration did or didn’t fail in these efforts. “The Trump administration’s focus has not been on a specific targeted number by the previous administration, but rather on evaluating the impact of new payment models on patients and providers,” said CMS spokesman Raymond Thor.”
“Health-care stakeholders told me they’re still not exactly sure how CMS plans to take on the task of improving Medicare payments…” Read the full article here.
Source: The Health 202: Trump administration pulls back from key Medicare goals – By Paige Winfield Cunningham, February 20, 2018. The Washington Post.
