CMS May Test Paying Providers To Control Key Public Health Metrics

CMS officials are considering testing a financial incentive to get providers to manage key public health performance metrics that make up HHS' Million Heart initiative, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Patrick Conway said Friday (Oct. 24). HHS, and the health care system in general, is moving toward so-called population health, which requires health care officials to figure out how to combine reimbursement for clinical and public health services. Million Hearts involves both public health services in which CMS...