The Direct Contracting Model (the “Model”) was designed by the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) as the next evolution in risk sharing arrangements to produce value and high-quality healthcare. The Model ...

Insurers and investors that bet big on Medicare Direct Contracting now face an uncertain future as regulators mull changes to the program. Payer and provider startups with high percentages of lives ...

The Trump administration unveiled the original direct contracting model in 2019, with the goal of coordinating primary and specialty care, while allowing access to enhanced benefits. It offered a ...

The Biden administration revamped the Direct Contracting payment model after major criticism from progressive lawmakers. But the House Progressive Caucus still wants to get rid of the model, now ...

Providers say they dodged a bullet when the Biden administration decided to redesign the Direct Contracting Model instead of eliminating it entirely as progressive lawmakers and groups demanded.

CMS recently named the 53 organizations that are participating in the 2021 performance year for the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model. The model's 2021 performance year starts April 1.

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model for Performance Year 2022 saved the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $371.5 million and saved direct contracting entities $484.1 million, ...

Direct employer-provider contracting imposes downward pricing pressure and upward quality pressure to the health care market, eliminates administrative complexity, and alleviates provider burnout, ...

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