Politico July 21, 2025
Carmen Paun

With Simon Levien

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HELP WANTED — CMS’s Innovation Center plans to expand its workforce as it prepares to launch new health care payment models, POLITICO’s Ruth Reader and Robert King report.

The decision comes after CMS cut nearly 300 people, about 5 percent of its workforce, earlier this year as part of a massive HHS reorganization.

“The CMS Innovation Center is hiring passionate leaders eager to make meaningful change in the healthcare delivery and outcomes in Medicare and Medicaid,” Sarah Fogler, director for the center’s Patient Care Models Group, wrote on LinkedIn recently.

The Innovation Center wants to fill roughly 100 positions, according to former and current staffers at CMS granted anonymity to discuss internal operations.

“There...

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