CMMI programs increased Medicare spending

Healthcare Economist October 3, 2023
Jason Shafrin

That is the finding from a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the activities of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)

CBO previously estimated that CMMI’s activities would reduce net federal spending but now estimates that they increased that spending during the first 10 years of the center’s operation and will continue to do so in its second decade.
CBO currently estimates that CMMI’s activities increased direct spending by $5.4 billion, or 0.1 percent of net spending on Medicare, between 2011 and 2020.1 (Most of CMMI’s models have focused on Medicare beneficiaries.) Specifically, CMMI spent...

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