Mayo Clinic appreciates the hard work and dedication of Senator Baucus in moving the health care reform debate forward.
Mayo is optimistic about the direction that Senator Baucus’s proposal lays out to ensure access to health insurance for all Americans. The proposed health insurance exchanges and a consumer owned and oriented plan will allow doctors and hospitals to continue to care for their patients, without the restraints of a Medicare-like, price-controlled public plan.
Mayo is pleased to see that the proposal includes elements designed to move Medicare in the direction of paying for value. Value is defined as the equation of quality (outcomes, safety and patient satisfaction) over the cost of care over time.
Provisions in the proposal that move us in this direction include the focus on Accountable Care Organizations, payment bundling pilot projects, and an Innovation Center for Medicare to test new patient-centered delivery and payment models.
Mayo will work with Senators to build upon these provisions and suggest additional ideas on paying for value in the Medicare program, including rewarding value and move toward implementation of programs that do so and using the array of measurement tools already in place to implement.
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