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Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 4, 2024. It took effect on January 3, 2025.
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What the agency says
This final rule describes a new mandatory alternative payment model, the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model (IOTA Model), that will test whether performance-based upside risk payments or downside risk payments paid to or owed by participating kidney transplant hospitals increase access to kidney transplants for patients with end- stage renal disease (ESRD) while preserving or enhancing the quality of care and reducing Medicare expenditures. This final rule also adopts standard provisions that will apply to the Radiation Oncology Model, the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices Model, and mandatory Innovation Center models, including the IOTA Model, whose first performance period begins on or after January 1, 2025. The finalized standard provisions relate to beneficiary protections; cooperation in model evaluation and monitoring; audits and records retention; rights in data and intellectual property; monitoring and compliance; remedial action; model termination by CMS; limitations on review; miscellaneous provisions on bankruptcy and other notifications; and the reconsideration review process.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-27841
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- December 4, 2024
- Takes effect
- January 3, 2025
- Dates
- These regulations are effective January 3, 2025.
- Docket
- CMS-5535-F
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AU51
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 512
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Health facilities; Medicare
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 184
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