With Medicare Payment Reform Gauntlet Laid, Center for American Progress Releases Recommendations to Reach Goal of 50 Percent from Alternate Models by 2018

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2015.  Last month, Health and Human Services, or HHS, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, announced specific goals for payment reform in Medicare. Most importantly, Secretary Burwell set a goal that 50 percent of fee-for-service Medicare payments be made through alternative payments models by 2018.