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Contributor: CMS Can Seize Opportunities to Fix the Rural Glitch, Risk Adjustment Caps in MSSP

October 10, 2021Sean Cavanaugh, MPH, Travis Broome, MPH, MBA, Bob Kocher, MDNo CommentsAJMCRisk Management & Stratification,Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH),Medicare, MA, MSSP, & Medicare ACOs,Physician Fee Schedule

In August, Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other leaders from CMS shared their priorities for the next 10 years. In particular, they called out the importance of reducing inequities in health care, striving to get all Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships, and designing financial incentives that will encourage participation in new payment and service delivery models.

Unfortunately, one of the programs with the most documented success for helping to achieve these aims, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) or, more commonly, accountable care organizations (ACOs), has seen its growth slow partially as a result of regulatory changes that delayed one new applicant cycle, as well as the cancellation of another cycle due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the new CMS leadership is looking for levers to pull to fulfill the goals it is setting related to reducing health disparities and promoting value-based care, then it needs to improve the operations and incentives of the MSSP, as well as address some unintended consequences of earlier policy decisions that have slowed its progress.

The good news is that CMS has an opportunity before it to act—by pushing forward with 2 provisions discussed in the proposed rule for the 2022 Medicare physician fee schedule that address challenges with benchmarking in MSSP that deprive ACOs of a portion of the savings they generate.

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: CMS, Medicare, Medicare Shared Savings Program, MSSP, risk adjustment, rural glitch, rural health

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