Cost & Price Transparency
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This week, CMS proposed the nationwide expansion and resurrection of a mandatory joint replacement bundled payment model—CJR-X—signaling a renewed push for cost and quality transparency in high-volume Medicare procedures and raising provider concerns about the return of mandatory value-based payment constructs [CJR-X proposal, Modern Healthcare analysis]. Concurrently, CMS is advancing voluntary risk programs, announcing 150 inaugural participants in the ACCESS model test that ties payments to chronic care outcomes using digital health partners—underscoring a federal strategy that is balancing mandated and voluntary models while
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