More than 500 healthcare practices have been selected to participate in a new pilot program designed to prevent heart attacks and strokes in Medicare patients, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday.
The Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model is the latest idea from the CMS Innovation Center, which conceptualizes and tests strategies to move the industry from a fee-for-service model to one that pays based on health outcomes. Under the pilot system, doctors would use predictive modeling to identify patients at risk of developing cardiovascular disease, using health data to assign individual risk scores and design intervention plans.
The five-year pilot is expected to eventually involve approximately 20,000 healthcare providers and 3.3 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. All types of doctors will participate in the program, including general practice, internal medicine and geriatric physicians.
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