CMS announces direct contracting model participants

Fifty-three organizations began participating April 1 in the first performance year of the , the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation today. Organizations that applied and deferred their start date will start the model on Jan. 1, 2022, if they continue to meet the model鈥檚 requirements, but the agency will not solicit new applications to start in January.
鈥淭he Innovation Center is reviewing its portfolio and learning from the implementation of this model to inform next steps on both the GPDC Model and strategies for population health, risk-based models,鈥 the agency said.
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