Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of CMS, expressed a hopeful view for physicians in Boston Tuesday.
Speaking at the World Medical Innovation Forum, sponsored by Boston-based Partners HealthCare, and in comments to The Boston Globe, he acknowledged that regulators have over-burdened physicians in recent years, but new systems are being developed to better align payments with clinical practice, according to the newspaper.
"When you see what actually does engage physicians, which is more freedom, less control, less burden, it's quite exciting," he said, according to The Boston Globe. "They're quite excited by these new models that accomplish that."
Mr. Slavitt said value-based payment models need more work and that CMS is still in the learning stages, according to the report.
In his talks, he also touched on the soaring costs of drugs and medical treatments. "It's an important thing for us to debate," he said, according to the report. "We have to run some experiments. We have to run some pilots. We have to figure out what works."
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