Politico April 26, 2024
By Chelsea Cirruzzo and Ben Leonard

FIRST IN PULSE: CMMI UNDER THE MICROSCOPE — Leading House GOP lawmakers are pushing for an investigation into the agency created to test ways to finance health care costs after it increased spending by more than $1 billion, Ben reports.

Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), who chairs the panel’s health care task force, called on the Government Accountability Office today to scrutinize the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

“CMMI has failed to deliver on its mandate,” Arrington and Burgess said in a statement, first reported by POLITICO.

They asked GAO to assess the agency’s funding and performance and identify which of the payment models tested by the agency had saved money or increased...

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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