“These proposed policies would grant HHS the needed flexibility to adjust the financial risk at a pace that enables more physicians to participate in APMs, while building on the tremendous movement toward value-based care,” AMA Immediate Past President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, said when the bill was introduced last year.

The AMA joined 17 other national health care organizations, as cosigners of a letter (PDF) in support of H.R. 5013.

Congress continues to closely analyze the movement towards APMs and the role of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in facilitating greater specialty physician participation in value-based care.