Rahul Rajkumar: CMS makes progress on a controlling costs

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Rahul Rajkumar: CMS makes progress on a controlling costs

To help control costs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has been experimenting with a program to pay qualifying health care providers based on outcomes rather ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

April 5, 2016 10:15 am

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Rahul Rajkumar, innovation director, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

To help control costs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has been experimenting with a program to pay qualifying health care providers based on outcomes rather than on transactions. CMS Innovation Director Rahul Rajkumar tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin 30 percent of Medicare and Medicaid expenditures are through the so-called accountable care organizations a year ahead of schedule.