Statement on CMS Innovation Center Direct Contracting Announcement

By Blair Childs, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs

Premier welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) on the redesign of the Direct Contracting Model as it suspends additional participation in the model. We’ve taken lessons learned from years of experience working with healthcare providers in alternative payment models and offered recommendations to refine the program in order to move the needle on value-based care. CMMI should use this time to improve the model so that providers are better suited to be the accountable entity.

This is greater reason for CMMI to build on the successes of the Next Generation ACO (NGACO) Model by scaling the program to expand the number of providers that can take on a high level of risk.

About Premier, Inc.

Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company, providing solutions to two-thirds of all healthcare providers in the U.S. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers, payers and policymakers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services in service of our mission to improve the health of communities. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com; as well as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and Premier’s blog for more information about the company.