MLTC quality pool will serve as foundation for MLTC value-based payment, according to Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson's remarks at LeadingAge NY Annual Conference.

CMS announced last week the creation of a Medicare-Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model.

Report provides outline of the Department's plans for MLTC value-based payment. Comments are due by Jan. 9, 2017.

The guidance requires MLTC plans to revise provider contracts to reward performance on quality measures, including potentially avoidable hospitalizations.

Document lists 2017 quality measures to be used and associated points. A second document provides answers to questions posed during the December 2016 MLTC Quality Workgroup meeting.

Recent activities include a meeting of Medicaid managed care plans to discuss VBP adjustments to payment rates, a “town hall” meeting with provider associations to discuss outreach and educational resources for providers, and the release of the managed long term care (MLTC) VBP Clinical Advisory Group report, which outlines the VBP framework for long term care.