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Last week, members of the CAP’s Value-Based Programs and Healthcare Policy Committee and the Council on Government and Professional Affairs met with staff from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to underscore the importance of pathology in value-based care.
- CMMI develops alternative payment models (APMs) to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries while reducing costs.
What we said: CAP leaders helped CMMI understand the important contributions pathologists make to early disease detection, which is key not only to earlier intervention but also to managing the costs of care.
- In turn, CMMI staff indicated openness to collaboration and highlighted the value of specialty societies in implementing and monitoring models.
What’s next: CMMI recognizes the importance of improving and maintaining quality care for Medicare beneficiaries and suggests that the CAP could help identify gaps in the quality measurement set.
- A future meeting is planned with CMMI’s quality measure experts to discuss priorities for measuring pathology in APMs.