WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, at 1:15 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Barriers to Expanding Innovative, Value-Based Care in Medicare."
#SubHealth will examine ways to meaningfully evaluate, and responsibly increase the use of value-based models and arrangements in the Medicare program. The subcommittee will discuss how those initiatives currently operate, as well as how they could work in the future. Members will hear about potential barriers to providers, companies and patients pursuing such arrangements, regulatory and statutory hurdles, and how adopting new technologies could play an important role.
“Next week’s hearing is an important opportunity to have a dialogue about how we can better adapt as health care moves away from fee-for-service models and toward value-based reimbursement," said #SubHealth Chairman Burgess. “From Advanced Alternative Payment Models, value-based contracting, and health care providers assuming more risk for delivering outcomes, stakeholders across the health care system have begun to explore how the Medicare program could being setting the stage for increasing access to new technologies for beneficiaries, decreasing beneficiary and program costs, and increasing overall efficiencies. The hearing will begin a conversation in the committee about the path ahead and explore areas where there is promise."
The Majority Memorandum, witness list, and witness testimony for the hearing will be available here as they are posted.
