Healthcare Innovation June 14, 2024
David Raths

For its second decade, instead of an initial projected savings of $77.5 billion, the Congressional Budget Office is now projecting CMMI to increase spending by $1.3 billion

At a June 13 congressional hearing, Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), was pressed to explain why so few of CMMI’s alternative payment models have produced cost savings.

In a meeting of the Health Subcommittee of the the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, began by outlining her concerns.

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