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CMS Announces Proposed Rule: Transforming Episode Accountability Model “TEAM”

Hall Render

On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced its plan to implement the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (“TEAM”), a new mandatory alternative payment model unveiled as part of the 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register.

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“Pathways to Success,” an Overhaul of Medicare’s ACO Program

CMS.gov

CMS is hard at work to move to a value-based system, not just because we want to, but because the American healthcare system is on an unsustainable trajectory, with one in five dollars spent in our economy projected to be spent on healthcare by 2026.