Health Affairs

Editor’s note: See additional posts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule  and related delivery system and payment reform initiatives by Debra Ness and William Kramer, Lawrence Casalino and Stephen Shortell,  Douglas Hastings, and Don Berwick and Richard Gilfillan. The release yesterday of the regulation to launch the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) marks... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You can read subsequent posts by Douglas Hastings, Steven Lieberman, and Ron Klar. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services... Read the rest of this entry »