MedPage Today January 17, 2023
— Reflections on the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
In the spirit of the New Year, I reflected on an institution with one of the more captivating bureaucratic names: the CMS Innovation Center.
Despite its questionable success in the nearly 13 years since its inception, I’m encouraged by the CMS Innovation Center’s Strategy Refresh and see unique value in government-derived innovation — value that the private sector cannot, or will not, afford the general public. While some have called for an end to the program, I say we stick with it.
Origin and Purpose
Known by its official name, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the CMS Innovation Center was chartered via the passage of the...