Becker's Healthcare October 20, 2021
CMS Innovation Center on Oct. 20 unveiled five strategic objectives to drive healthcare transformation, improve health equity, reduce costs and engage payers and providers.
Five objectives:
- Drive accountable care: CMS aims to increase the number of people in a care relationship. All traditional Medicare beneficiaries will be in a care relationship by 2030. Most other Medicare beneficiaries will be in a care relationship by 2030.
- Advance health equity: CMS will increase focus on underserved Americans and embed health equity in every aspect of the innovation center. All new models will be mandated to collect and report demographic information of their beneficiaries as well as data of social determinants of health. CMS will work to identify areas to reduce...