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Medicaid will be an increasing focus of alternative payment models (APMs) from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), Ellen Lukens, MPH, said Wednesday at the annual Population Health Colloquium hosted by Thomas Jefferson University.
“Models have been predominantly Medicare-oriented, and have disproportionately served white beneficiaries,” said Lukens, who is policy and programs group director at CMMI, in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “Few of our models have focused on Medicaid beneficiaries, and few of our models have included robust participation from safety-net providers … We are really invested in including some of these changes so that Medicaid beneficiaries can benefit from some of the innovations that we’re testing with Medicare.”