Commitment Statement:
The Medicare Rights Center supports the goal of linking 50% of U.S. health care payments to quality and value through alternative payment models by 2018. Medicare Rights directly answers 20,000 Medicare questions each year on its free, multilingual helpline and will provide counseling to ensure that its clients — beneficiaries, caregivers, and professionals — are educated about Medicare-related alternative payment models.
Medicare Rights’ educational website, Medicare Interactive (www.medicareinteractive.org), receives nearly two million visits each year, and Medicare Rights will add content that describes alternative payment models in legally vetted, consumer-friendly language.
Finally, Medicare Rights will develop a set of consumer-oriented policy principles for informing the development and implementation of alternative payment models, building on the efforts of the Consumer & Patient Affinity Group (CPAG) of the LAN. In 2017, Medicare Rights will include these principles in a formal report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and others on the changing Medicare landscape and how consumers and consumer advocates can become more empowered within it.
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Medicare Rights in Partnership with Health Care Learning & Action Network
LAN Fall Summit 2016 Key Themes: Partnership, Equity and Transparency
