Insights

The MACRA All-Payer Advanced APM Pathway: System-Wide Implications

Background The Quality Payment Program (QPP) under MACRA is now more than three months underway into the first payment year. However, there are still many nuances of the program, specifically under the multi-payer Advanced APM option, that payers —including commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid — and clinicians need to understand before they can begin collaborating, … Read more

D.C. Direct: Weekly policy intelligence

D.C. Direct: Keeping you up to date on federal health policy and politics. What happens in Washington will impact virtually every health care organization. Congress and the Administration debate significant, paradigm-changing health care policies that impact how care is delivered, financed, and priced; how we improve public health; and how to incorporate new tools and … Read more

Locations

Leavitt Partners Locations Leavitt Partners was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, and because of our deep involvement in healthcare policy at a federal level, our main office is now in Washington, D.C. Health Management Associations (HMA) Locations Since 2021, Leavitt Partners has been part of HMA, which has locations nationwide as well as on-the-ground … Read more

Assessing Current and Expected Growth of Alternative Payment Models: A Look at the Bold New Goals for Downside Risk

Ambitious Goals for the Future of ValueThe Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCP-LAN or LAN) recently released aggressive new goals for moving the broader market from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based payment (VBP). The new goals aim to shift all Medicare payments and half of Medicaid and commercial health care payments into downside-risk models … Read more

New Healthcare Alliance Launches Alternative Payment Model for Addiction Recovery

Leavitt Partners Joins National Non-Profit, Facing Addiction with NCADD and Remedy Partners to Redesign the Structure and Payment of Addiction Treatment and Recovery Services  Washington, D.C. – September 7, 2018 – A national multi-sector alliance of healthcare industry leaders, including Leavitt Partners, Facing Addiction with NCADD (The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) and … Read more

National Association of ACOs and Leavitt Partners Release 2017 Annual ACO Survey Results

Washington, D.C., October 4, 2017 — Today the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) and Leavitt Partners released the results from their first Annual ACO Survey in a Health Affairs article entitled “The 2017 Annual ACO Survey: What Do Current Trends Tell Us About The Future of Accountable Care.” Two-hundred and forty unique ACOs, representing one … Read more

Leavitt Partners Releases “Medicare Alternative Payment Models: Not Every Provider Has a Path Forward” White Paper

Salt Lake City, September 11, 2017 –  Alternative Payment Models (APMs) have gained bipartisan support as a medium to produce the health care delivery transformations necessary to decrease health care costs and increase the quality of care. Today, Leavitt Partners released a new white paper, “Medicare Alternative Payment Models: Not Every Provider Has a Path … Read more

Using Alternative Payment Models to Address Health Care Disparities

In the U.S., a person’s health status is impacted by a variety of factors such as race/ethnicity, disability status, socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and more. These differences in society are linked to inequalities in health status that are referred to as health care disparities. The CDC defines health disparities as “preventable differences in the … Read more

The Future of Medicare Telehealth Coverage: CBO Hesitates, Congress Inches Forward

As telehealth gains traction as a way to deliver health care, Medicare reimbursement remains a major obstacle to broad implementation due in part to scoring methodology from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Rather than decreasing health care costs, CBO’s scoring methodology assumes that telehealth increases utilization and therefore overall costs. Recent legislation on the Hill, … Read more