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CMS needs long-term vision

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lacks a coherent vision for the future, according to former administrator Donald M. Berwick, who stepped down from the agency after completing a

ACO Pioneers to launch by year's end?

Despite fears about the tight timetable, the Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACOs) could launch by the end of the year, said Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator

AHA pushes for risk-adjusted readmissions for race

The American Hospital Association (AHA) yesterday called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to include race and limited English proficiency to its risk-adjustment methodology for

ACOs will bring more losses than savings, hospital CEOs say

Days after a major trade association representing medical groups voiced concerns over the proposed regulations governing accountable care organizations, a consortium of some of the most prominent

Berwick: Automatic payment cuts are unnecessary

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick said that President Obama's proposal to empower the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board to impose automatic payment

Berwick revisits ghosts of CMS past

The path that lies ahead for new CMS Chief Dr. Donald M. Berwick may be better divined not by looking at the agency's future, but its past. November 1978 is a good place to begin. A young but