As we test new CMS Innovation Center models that include payments for the services defined above, including CCM, PCM, TCM, interprofessional consultation, remote evaluation of patient videos/images, virtual check-in, and e-visits, or as changes in the advanced primary care model of care or more general changes to Medicare payment policy take place that affect existing CMS Innovation Center models, consistent with existing policy, we will address potential overlaps between payments made to model participants with our proposed payment for APCM, elements of the proposed APCM service, and these duplicative services, and seek to implement appropriate payment policies

As a result of this process, we propose to modify two episode-based measures currently in use (the Routine Cataract Removal with Intraocular Lens (IOL) Implantation and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) measures), and propose the reevaluated Respiratory Infection Hospitalization as a new measure, replacing the Simple Pneumonia with Hospitalization measure previously removed from the cost performance category
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