Comments: Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program; Accountable Care Organizations–Pathways to Success
October 16, 2018
Comments
The comments that follow are informed by our experience assisting people as they navigate the Medicare program. We discuss the importance of including the beneficiary perspective in efforts to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes value and that preserves and bolsters the consumer protections that are at the heart of the Medicare program.
We appreciate the work the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is doing to streamline and modernize the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and to ensure its longterm success. While it is clear that the current program needs to be improved, we continue to support its underlying goal of increasing value and beneficiary well-being in the health system.
Any changes to the Medicare program must aim for healthier people, better care, and smarter spending—not paying more for less. As policymakers debate the future of health care, we will provide our insights here.
Thinking ahead to Medicare's future, it’s important to modernize benefits and pursue changes that improve how people with Medicare navigate their coverage on a daily basis. Here are our evolving 30 policy goals for Medicare’s future.
You can help protect and strengthen Medicare by taking action on the important issues we are following, subscribe to newsletter alerts, or follow along on social media. Any way you choose to get involved is a contribution that we appreciate greatly.
Comments: Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program; Accountable Care Organizations–Pathways to Success
The comments that follow are informed by our experience assisting people as they navigate the Medicare program. We discuss the importance of including the beneficiary perspective in efforts to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes value and that preserves and bolsters the consumer protections that are at the heart of the Medicare program.
We appreciate the work the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is doing to streamline and modernize the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and to ensure its longterm success. While it is clear that the current program needs to be improved, we continue to support its underlying goal of increasing value and beneficiary well-being in the health system.
Reference
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Any changes to the Medicare program must aim for healthier people, better care, and smarter spending—not paying more for less. As policymakers debate the future of health care, we will provide our insights here.
Thinking ahead to Medicare's future, it’s important to modernize benefits and pursue changes that improve how people with Medicare navigate their coverage on a daily basis. Here are our evolving 30 policy goals for Medicare’s future.
You can help protect and strengthen Medicare by taking action on the important issues we are following, subscribe to newsletter alerts, or follow along on social media. Any way you choose to get involved is a contribution that we appreciate greatly.