Psychology Today November 9, 2019
Taking aim at “better health, better health care, at lower cost.”
Signed by Barack Obama in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tasked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) with improving the Medicare and Medicaid health care delivery and payment systems. One fundamental transformation necessary to carry out these improvements would be an increase in system efficiency, and this led to numerous initiatives and possibilities.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services was given broad authority, following the approval of the PPACA, to expand any program that had promise in these areas without congressional approval. CMS began acting like...
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