The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), also known as the “Innovation Center,” was authorized under the Affordable Care Act with the goals of designing, implementing, and testing new payment and delivery system reform models to address concerns about rising costs, quality of care, and inefficient spending. These FAQs provide an overview of the Innovation Center, as well as details on model performance, beneficiary involvement, and more.

On Nov. 28, 2017, KFF held a public web briefing on the topic of delivery system reform in Medicare. It explored the latest evidence on savings and quality among newer payments models (including ACOs, bundled payments and medical homes), and discussed future directions that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…

A new interactive resource from the Kaiser Family Foundation synthesizes the most up-to-date evidence on Medicare’s efforts to reduce the growth in health care spending and improve patient care through new payment and delivery reform models. KFF’s Evidence Link is a central source of information and data about Medicare accountable care…

ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who voluntarily form partnerships to collaborate and share accountability for the quality and cost of care delivered to their patients. These FAQs describe the ACO models in Medicare and answer questions pertaining to spending and quality results, where models are located, and how many beneficiaries are involved. These Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) FAQs are part of the Medicare Delivery System Reform Evidence Link.

The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Evidence Link is an interactive resource that pulls together the latest available evidence on Medicare payment and delivery system reform models, with an initial focus on accountable care organization (ACO), medical home, and bundled payment models. Through FAQs and side-by-side comparison tables, the Evidence Link synthesizes the most up-to-date information on savings and quality results, and describes key design features of each Medicare model, such as how providers are paid, the number of beneficiaries receiving care under each model, where models are being tested, and timelines for evaluations.

Use this contact form to provide comments, suggestions, and/or questions about the Medicare Delivery System Reform Evidence Link, or to sign up for Medicare email alerts.

This tutorial walks users through the Medicare Delivery System Reform Evidence Link, including its FAQs and side-by-side comparison tables on Medicare accountable care organization (ACO), medical home, and bundled payment models.

Keep current with Medicare Payment and Delivery System Reform news, including recently-proposed rules, newly-released spending and quality results, and announcements on model changes.

This primer providers an overview of certain delivery system reform models that are being examined in traditional Medicare, and explains model goals, financial incentives, potential beneficiary implications, and results so far with respect to Medicare spending and care quality. The primer discusses accountable care organizations, medical homes and bundled payments.

Primary Care Providers View Health IT as Improving Quality, But Tilt Negatively on ACOs Half of the nation’s primary care physicians view the increased use of quality-of-care metrics and financial penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care, according to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund and…