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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.

Latest Regulatory Actions and news

dementia 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…

Nothing gets done in Washington, right? Well…in a year when Congress had the fewest bills passed, ever, and polarization seemed at its highest, it was a breakthrough year for C-TAC’s policy advocacy. The public policy wins in this recap of 2023 will have an immediate impact for patients, caregivers, and their care teams in 2024. We couldn’t have done it…

C-TAC’s Comments to CMS on Serious Illness

C-TAC has submitted comments to CMS on those measures under consideration (MUC) pertinent to those with serious illness. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) annually issues a Measures Under Consideration List (MUC List) for public comment and this is an opportunity to weigh in on potential future measures before they’re finalized or proposed for Medicare program use. Each…

C-TAC Summit Registration is Open

This year’s Summit will feature major policy influencers that are actively working to move the right levers to make positive change. October 24-25, 2022 in Washington, DC.