CMS Direct Contracting Model Explained

Clarify Health ACO experts will provide an exclusive break down of the details and implications of the Direct Contracting Model

Fast facts:

• The five-year program officially starts on January 1, 2021, with the option to participate in an “Implementation Period” during 2020.

• The implementation period allows Direct Contracting Entities (including those that have historically furnished care to relatively few - or even no - Medicare FFS beneficiaries) to engage in beneficiary alignment and other preparatory activities.

• The application for organizations interested in the Implementation Period will be open from November 25, 2019, to February 24, 2020.

• The application for organizations interested in starting in the first performance year will open in Spring 2020.