CMS Hopes to Support Home-Based Care with More Payment, Regulatory Flexibilities
Home Health Care News / By Robert Holly
Officials from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its main innovation hub touted a “strategy refresh” on Wednesday.
Among its key pillars, the refresh calls for greater payment and regulatory flexibilities supporting the provision of home- and community-based care.
CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure discussed the strategy reset during a Wednesday afternoon webinar. Brooks-LaSure was joined by CMS Innovation Center Director Liz Fowler, in addition to the center’s chief strategy officer, Purva Rawal.
“My vision for the future of the agency, our programs and the people we serve is straightforward: that CMS serves the public as a trusted partner and steward dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage and improving health outcomes,” Brooks-LaSure said.
Ellen Lukens, group director of the CMS Innovation Center’s policies and programs group, was also on the webinar.
Contextually, the strategy refresh from CMS comes after a thorough review of the innovation center’s 10-year history.
Established in 2010 under the Affordable Care Act, the center’s overarching goal is to help move the U.S. health system toward value-based care across Medicare, Medicaid and the other major government health care programs. From 2018 to 2020 alone, CMS Innovation Center models affected over 528,000 health care providers and plans while also impacting nearly 28 million patients.
“Our vision is straightforward: a health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high-quality, affordable, person-centered care,” Fowler said during the webinar.
Paired with the webinar, CMS provided details of the refresh in a 32-page white paper, also released Wednesday. Driving accountable care, advancing health equity, supporting innovation, addressing affordability and partnering to achieve system transformation are the five key pillars of the refresh, the paper explains.
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