V-BID included in CMS Request for Information to Innovate Medicare
Thursday, October 2, 2014, Washington, DC. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for information to innovate Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDP), Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MA-PD), Medicaid managed care plans (Medicaid plans), Medigap plans, and Retiree Supplemental health plans. Specifically, CMS requests information on innovations in: ● Plan design, including but not limited to value-based insurance design ● Care delivery; ● Beneficiary and provider incentives and engagement; ● Network design. This request coincides with the recent introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to authorize a V-BID demonstration project in Medicare Advantage.