CMS Expands Reimbursement Time For Comprehensive Care For Joint-Replacement Model
Executive Summary
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the US Medicare agency is extending the length of time it will support its Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement bundled payment reimbursement model.
You may also be interested in...
Could CMS Changes To Bundled Pay Models Stifle Medtechs' Value-Based Pay Plans?
The US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed downsizing its CJR joint replacement value-based payment model and outright canceling its cardiac procedure bundled payment model. Will the move discourage companies like Zimmer Biomet, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic, which have already invested in programs based on the value-based models?
White House To Deliver 25 Million Face Masks To Low-Income Americans
The White House will be spending $86m to provide tens of millions of coronavirus masks to poorer American households.
HHS Secretary Nominee Becerra Commits To Telehealth Expansion, Procedure Price Transparency
At two recent confirmation hearings, HHS secretary nominee Xavier Becerra promised Senators he would help expand telehealth and procedure price transparency.