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Comparing the InCK & MOM Models
The Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) and Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Models are two new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) models designed to improve care delivery for vulnerable Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries, particularly those affected by the nation’s opioid crisis, while improving quality of care and reducing spending.
Fact SheetCMS awards funding to combat opioid misuse among expectant mothers and improve care for children impacted by the crisis
Goals are to improve quality of care, increase access to treatment based on state-specific needs, and reduce expenditures
Press ReleaseRemarks by Administrator Seema Verma at the National Rural Health Association Annual Conference
Remarks by Administrator Seema Verma at the National Rural Health Association Annual Conference
(As prepared for delivery – May 8, 2019)
Press ReleaseCMS Announces Agency’s First Rural Health Strategy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the agency’s first Rural Health Strategy to help improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare in rural communities. The strategy is intended to provide a proactive and strategic focus on healthcare issues across rural America.
Press ReleaseCMS Rural Health Strategy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the agency’s first Rural Health Strategy to help improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare in rural communities. The strategy is intended to provide a proactive and strategic focus on healthcare issues across rural America.
Fact SheetHHS ANNOUNCES NEW INCENTIVES FOR PROVIDERS TO WORK TOGETHER THROUGH ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS
People with Medicare will be able to benefit from a new program designed to encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers to coordinate their care under a final regulation issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Press ReleaseSECRETARY SEBELIUS ANNOUNCES AN EXPANSION OF THE RURAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DEMONSTRATION UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
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MEDICARE LAUNCHES MISSISSIPPI HEALTH FIRST COLLABORATIVE FOR DIABETES CARE IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS
A statewide effort to improve care for patients with diabetes across Mississippi, particularly for patients considered to be “medically underserved ,” is being announced today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The initiative is called the Mississippi Health First Collaborative.
Press ReleaseTackling Tough Issues Together: The CMS Rural Health Council Solution Summit
In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt’s Country Life Commission issued a report finding that in rural populations, “the physicians are further apart and are called in later in cases of sickness, and in some districts, medical attendance is relatively more expensive.”
Oct 11, 2016
BlogQuality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal
91 percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participated in the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The submission rates for Accountable Care Organizations and clinicians in rural practices were at 98 percent and 94 percent, respectively.
May 31, 2018
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