Global hospital budgets, where hospitals receive a fixed amount of revenue for the upcoming year for a specific patient population (e.g., Medicare and/or Medicaid), are the opposite of fee for service reimbursement.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and state Medicaid programs have taken interest in global hospital budgets and hospitals in impacted states will need to prepare. This article summarizes two of these programs: the federal Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model and New York’s Health Equity Reform 1115 Medicaid Waiver.
On January 9, 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to New York’s Medicaid director approving New York’s Section 1115 Waiver amendment, which the state submitted for approval on September 2, 2022. During the term of the amendment (January 9, 2024 through March 31, 2027), New York aims to fundamentally reform the way health care services are delivered through its Medicaid program by:
- Investing in Health Related Social Needs (HRSN) via providers working with Social Care Networks (SCNs) which in turn contract with existing Medicaid managed care ...
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