Medicare & Medicaid
Opponents warn if people fail to meet a work requirement then lose health benefits as a result, they'll likely just get sicker.
Republicans have also pledged to repeal the taxes that Democrats used to pay for their health law, so they will have far less money to pay for replacement.
Rule establishes bundled payments for cardiac and orthopedic care, small-practice ACOs.
The group is pressing CMS to make 2018 another transition year, more cybersecurity incentives and to streamline multiple Meaningful Use programs.
Affordable Care Act's fate is coming into question as healthcare organizations move into the new world of value-based care and other advances.
The aim is to improve the consumer experience and strengthen the individual and small group markets as a whole.
The new model was unveiled in March to test whether alternative payments would have given incentives to prescribe less costly drugs. CMS withdrew the proposal after a CMMI review.
Agency predicts the new opportunities will mean 25 percent of clinicians in QPP will be a part of the APMs.
State-based effort is an Innovation Center initiative for clinicians to participate in advanced alternative payment models under MACRA.
Introduced in House and Senate, bill would allow people who miss initial enrollment deadline to sign up in the fall, coverage would begin the month after they enroll.