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Photo by Cavan Images/Getty Images Health insurer Humana will begin contracting with healthcare providers to offer coordinated care for patients who are beneficiaries of original Medicare. Humana is known for offering Medicare Advantage plans. The new program will be facilitated through a value-based model called the Direct Contracting Model, in which the Humana Direct Contracting Entity will operate as Humana Care Solutions. The goal of the model is to improve care quality, health outcomes and the patient experience, while lowering the cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries. The DCM was est...

(Photo by Sam Edwards/Getty Images) Dozens of provider groups, including America's Physician Groups, American Academy of Home Care Medicine and VillageMD, have signed onto a letter imploring the Biden Administration to open up one more chance for providers to sign up for the Direct Contracting Payment model. In the letter to Elizabeth Fowler, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, providers lamented the fact that while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services promised a second application period to sign up for the model, there in fact will ...