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A healthcare storm is brewing between CMS and Medicare Shared Savings Program providers who have not engaged with the agency’s value-based care efforts, an essential step in readying for the new “Pathways to Success” initiative.
Just like stubborn homeowners who don’t heed the hurricane-evacuation orders of emergency officials, healthcare providers who have not yet aligned with CMS’s graduated program targets are living dangerously. And, as with those who disregard calls to vacate and risk their lives by not adapting to the hazardous situation at hand, the end result for these providers could be equally calamitous.
This is not to say that providers who haven’t kept up with CMS’s value-based agenda are stubborn. In fact, these physicians are more likely to say that they’re just too busy and simply don’t have the time to align with CMS’s value-based initiatives…