If an organization wants to participate in a value-based care payment model, it should get ready to create a health equity plan, Fierce healthcare reports.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Liz Fowler said that a requirement for creating such a plan—which outlines how it will treat underserved patient populations—is likely to be a permanent part of payment models going forward. The center included the requirement in the recently launched ACO REACH payment model which is an overhaul of Direct Contracting.
“You can expect future innovation center models to have features like ACO REACH like requirements for health equity plan,” Fowler said during AHIP’s 2022 National Conference on Health Policy and Government Health Programs. Read more.
