8:05 AM to 9:30 AM

Over the past 10 years, the CMS Innovation Center has launched over 50 models, but only six generated statistically significant savings for Medicare. Analyses of commercial health plan experience with value-based payment models demonstrated similarly mixed success. Yet, there is seemingly tremendous momentum behind value-based models. Why aren’t there better results? Could Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) help value-based payment models deliver on their promise?

During this presentation, Dr. Barr will make the case that interprofessional teams are the best approach to delivery of excellent healthcare and that clinical pharmacists, as members of these interprofessional teams, are essential to meaningful improvements in care. While new, better, digital quality measures will be the future, the current (and future) portfolio of measures will continue to emphasize clinical conditions for which optimal medication management can produce better clinical and financial performance. Appropriate support for team-based care and broad implementation of CMM could generate the outcomes we need and the evolution of value-based payment models.