Health Affairs May 13, 2022
The tenth anniversary of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) was in 2020. This anniversary was accompanied by several retrospectives of the results of the Innovation Center’s first decade of operation. Unfortunately, most of the analysts, including those from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), reached similar conclusions: that the demonstrations deployed by the Innovation Center neither saved much money nor greatly improved quality, the two primary objectives set out for the Innovation Center in the Affordable Care Act.
Past and present Innovation Center directors concluded that the primary reason for the demonstrations’ failure to achieve the objectives was selection bias by the providers who had volunteered to participate in the various models. The...
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