Our Path to the 2030 Moonshot

Public Policy

In collaboration with our members and partners, C-TAC works to ensure that all individuals living with serious illness, especially those who are underserved and under-resourced, have a high quality of life – on their own terms. Our Core Principles for Care Models serve as the guidance in our policy work. Included in our Principles is our commitment to advancing equity and dismantling systemic barriers to high quality care for those with serious illness, which we have integrated into our three policy priorities: Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Shared Decision-Making (SDM), Community-Based Supports and Services, and State Innovation on Palliative Care.

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Core Principles for Care Models

C-TAC has developed the Core Principles for Care Models for Those with Serious Illness to provide clear guideposts that can be used to evaluate payment and care models. These Principles align with the evidence-based 4th edition of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines and CMMI’s new strategy to transform health systems.

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Issue Briefs For Focus Policy Areas

Latest Regulatory Actions and news

C-TAC Engages with CMS on Serious Illness

C-TAC regularly monitors and comments on federal regulations as part of our ongoing dialogue with the Biden Administration on behalf of those living with serious illness. This is a mechanism to help shape Medicare programs and measures on their behalf. Throughout the year, there are various comment opportunities including the ability to comment on proposed regulations, Requests for Information (RFIs),…

C-TAC Acknowledges CMS Decision to End VBID Hospice Carve-In Test

C-TAC acknowledges CMMI’s recent decision to end testing of the Hospice Benefit Component of the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model. There were executional reasons for payers and providers to do so and we will continue to work with the agency, providers, payers, and policy makers on ways to improve care of those with serious illness and their families using our…

GUIDE Dementia Model: Opportunities for Serious Illness Care

C-TAC’s Senior Regulatory Advisor, Dr. Marian Grant, co-authored a recent Journal of the American Geriatrics Society article on how the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) GUIDE Dementia care model is actually a serious illness model. The GUIDE model is the first CMMI model to address all 11 of CTAC’s principles for models for serious illness care. The…