DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.19267 ISSN: 0098-7484

Can Payment Reform Transform Heart Failure Care?

Sarah Chuzi, Karen Joynt Maddox, Tara Lagu

This Viewpoint discusses how the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) recently announced by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation might address gaps in implementation of heart failure care, describes 4 categories of performance assessment under the ASM, and suggests several ASM features that could limit its ability to address implementation gaps.

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