Hospitals and insurers say that  the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation should pay more attention to increasing interoperability, implementing more value-based payment programs, and expanding telehealth coverage.

The recommendations  resulted from the CMS Innovation Center’s recent request for information from the health sector about ways to cut spending and improve outcomes.

The agency received about 1,000 comments from insurers, associations and providers, with, FierceHealthcare reports, “many of those comments focused on speeding the transition to value-based care.”

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