WASHINGTON — Newly installed Medicare chief Donald Berwick, keeping a low public profile after encountering controversy over his appointment, is moving quickly behind the scenes to seed the US health care system with 100 to 300 sites to test new models of caring for patients.
Since July 6, when President Obama bypassed the Senate confirmation process and named Berwick with a recess appointment, the Cambridge health guru and former Harvard professor has made launching the sites a high priority, according to officials and industry executives.
Already, health care lobbyists are seeking to influence how Medicare will decide which physician groups and hospitals to include in the first wave of pilots. Providers from Massachusetts are expected to be among groups from across the country vying for designation as “accountable care organizations’’ under the program.
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Author: Christopher Rowland
