HHS chief keeps focus on alternative payment models

Health Care Dive ^ | 10/29/19 | Shannon Muchmore

[grumpygresh]

HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday hinted at further pushes from CMS on value-based care, including population health benefits like those newly allowed in Medicare Advantage and per-member per-month payments for a patient's total cost of care.

Speaking at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit in Washington, Azar gave the example of paying a provider $14,000 a year for all of a person's health costs — regardless of how much care is actually required.

[grumpygresh]

Looks like HHS secretary’s a socialist. So it looks like we’ll get the old Soviet model with rationing. The old « you pretend to pay and we’ll pretend to work « 

[goldstategop]

A cap on Medicare payments is coming. You were surprised?

This is what we’re gonna get if the government becomes the sole health care insurer.

[House Atreides]

Hell’s bells, sounds like a plan for “caregivers” to take the $14,000 each for a bunch of folks and give them only aspirin from a nursing assistant.

[youngidiot]

An idea so breathtaking in its stupidity that I feel embarrassed on his behalf.