Value-Based Contracting: CMS Final Rule Leaves ‘Multiple Best Price’ Questions Unresolved
Executive Summary
Implementation of ‘multiple best price’ reporting approach to facilitate value-based payment arrangements postponed until 2022 to allow time for further guidance to be developed, but new definition of VBP arrangements is effective in March.
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