Vermont and the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems recently submitted a letter to CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to try different pilot programs involving bundled payments, according to a VTDigger.org report.
Vermont is preparing to transition to a single-payor healthcare system in 2017. The Green Mountain Care Board, which is responsible for setting the overall policy goals for pilot projects and the overall direction of the single-payor system, is already participating in another payment reform pilot project: Blueprint for Health. According to the report, Blueprint for Health is an advance primary care model in which practices are paid on a per-member basis rather than a fee-for-service basis.
The state is looking at the bundled payment pilots to see more potential outcomes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as the system moves away from FFS and moves toward global payments. Michael Del Trecco, vice president of finance for the VAHHS, said every hospital in Vermont is working with the Department of Vermont Health Access on varying degrees of payment reform, but it is not clear which hospitals are taking specific measures and how the state plans to implement bundled payments, according to the report.
Vermont is preparing to transition to a single-payor healthcare system in 2017. The Green Mountain Care Board, which is responsible for setting the overall policy goals for pilot projects and the overall direction of the single-payor system, is already participating in another payment reform pilot project: Blueprint for Health. According to the report, Blueprint for Health is an advance primary care model in which practices are paid on a per-member basis rather than a fee-for-service basis.
The state is looking at the bundled payment pilots to see more potential outcomes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as the system moves away from FFS and moves toward global payments. Michael Del Trecco, vice president of finance for the VAHHS, said every hospital in Vermont is working with the Department of Vermont Health Access on varying degrees of payment reform, but it is not clear which hospitals are taking specific measures and how the state plans to implement bundled payments, according to the report.
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