HealthIT Answers May 22, 2025
Transforming our health system for prevention, patient empowerment, and competition
We stand at a defining crossroads in American health care with an unprecedented opportunity to protect taxpayer dollars and fundamentally reshape how we approach health and wellness by embracing preventive care. The CMS Innovation Center — established by Congress to improve the health care system by developing health care payment and service delivery approaches that lower costs and improve quality of care — is uniquely positioned to help steer the course at this crossroads.
Protecting patients and taxpayers from the health care status quo
Our American health care system is hemorrhaging money, chasing disease treatments rather than fixing the underlying health behaviors leading to disease. Doctors, hospitals, and other providers...







