Healthcare Economist October 22, 2021
Created by Section 3021 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI; aka The CMS Innovation Center) has been tasked with creating new reimbursement strategies to improve quality and decrease costs. Over the past decade, CMMI has tested over 50 new payment models, and in just the last 3 years (2018-2020) CMMI models have reached almost 28 million patients and over half a million health care providers and plans.
Despite these ambitious goals, CMMI reports that “only six out of more than 50 models launched generated statistically significant savings to Medicare and to taxpayers and four of these met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope.”
In their recently released white paper...