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HIMSS supports contracting requirement while the Federation of American Hospitals suggests pushing back the program.
The money will allow the Greater Flint Health Coalition to do outreach and enroll uninsured children so families can access available services.
The plan is part of the insurer's goal to increase the number of payments going to providers who practice value-based care from the current 40 percent to 75 percent by 2020.
The model will run for five years starting Jan. 1, 2017, in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Overall spending grew across the major categories of total healthcare expenditures, including public coverage, commercial coverage and the net cost of private health insurance.
Proposal would also create a path for providers to get to Merit-based Incentive Payments or Alternative Payment Model payments being mandated under MACRA.
AHIP leader speaks about value-based care, MACRA and why she favors Clinton at McKesson event Wednesday.
To help consumers foot the remaining bill, Aetna said it is offering monthly payroll deductions.
Cox will also be banned from participating in federal healthcare programs for four years, including management of administrative services that would be paid for by federal healthcare dollars.
In fact, the sweeping Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA, was known to only 20 percent of physicians surveyed.