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02/8/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: Keynote with Jon Blum, CMS Principal Deputy Administrator

On January 29, 2024, at the Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit, Jon Blum, the Principal Deputy Administrator of CMS, gave a keynote talk to discuss the Administration’s progress on advancing value-based care and how it is now primarily focusing on increasing coordination between all payers and specialty care.

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02/8/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: State of the Union Roundtable

On January 31, 2024, at the third Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit, a former Commissioner of the FDA and two former Secretaries of HHS gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities of wider value-based care adoption.

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02/8/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: Medicare Advantage Legal Developments

On February 2, 2024, at the third Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit, a panel of health lawyers explored how changes in risk adjustment and marketing requirement updates for Medicare Advantage impact the value-based care industry.

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02/7/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: Medicare Advantage, What Does the Research Say

On January 30, 2024, at the Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit, a panel of Medicare Advantage (MA) experts discussed the current research on the value of MA. During this session, the speakers each gave brief overviews of different studies focused on MA in the context of value-based care (VBC).

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02/7/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: Bringing the Late Majority into Value-Based Care

On January 31, the Value-Based Payment Summit hosted a session with leaders from Aledade and an independent physician who currently participates in an ACO. The discussion centered around the evolution of ACO participation, general awareness of value-based care participation options, and how to support independent physician practices.

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02/7/24

Value-Based Payment Summit: Administration Perspectives on Accountable Care

On January 29, the Value-Based Payment Summit hosted a session with CMS leaders to discuss the Administration’s progress on its value-based care goals and to identify key initiatives for 2024.

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02/7/24

U.S. House Energy & Commerce: Health Care Spending in the United States: Unsustainable for Patients, Employers, and Taxpayers

On Wednesday, January 31, the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce held a Health Subcommittee hearing to discuss the nation’s high costs of health care, including the drivers behind increased spending in the public and private sectors, potential cost-cutting strategies, and the impact of high health care costs on patients, employers, and payers.

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02/1/24

Alliance for Health Policy: 2024 Forecast

On January 24, 2024, the Alliance for Health Policy hosted a webinar to discuss predicted trends and topics of interest in federal and state health policy in 2024 and the impact of the upcoming presidential election and recent legislative activities on these policy priorities.

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01/26/24

MedPAC January Meeting: Medicare Advantage

On January 12, the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC) Commissioners were presented with the annual status report on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program followed by three policy options to standardize current MA plans.

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01/26/24

MedPAC January Meeting: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments

On January 11, 2024, during the morning session of MedPAC’s January public meeting, MedPAC’s Commissioners discussed the main contents and potential edits of a chapter on payment adequacy and updates for Congress.