Today, Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt providing input on how to achieve patient-centeredness in alternative payment models (APMs) based on feedback PIPC received related to proposed models, including the Medicare Program; Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment Models (EPMs); Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model; and Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR).
In the letter, Chairman Coelho provides a number of suggestions for bringing the voices of patients, people with disabilities, and their families to the discussion of how to advance patient-centered principles throughout an evolving healthcare system.
In the letter, Chairman Coelho provides a number of suggestions for bringing the voices of patients, people with disabilities, and their families to the discussion of how to advance patient-centered principles throughout an evolving healthcare system.
Chairman Coelho states, "We believe that solutions that center on patients and people with disabilities are the best approach to improving overall health care efficiency and quality. CMS should engage patients, people with disabilities and their families, providers and other stakeholders early and often in the creation of a health system that puts patients and people with disabilities at the center. With early engagement, we can shift away from policies that reinforce the old paternalistic system of health care and work against personalized medicine and the Precision Medicine Initiative, and instead focus on delivery reforms that activate and engage patients and people with disabilities and support shared decision-making between patients, people with disabilities and their providers. We look forward to an engagement process to develop care models for cardiac rehabilitation and joint replacement that reflect the input of patients, people with disabilities and their providers. In doing so, CMMI will be building the foundation for a patient-centered health system"
| PIPC EPM Letter.pdf |
