“The Big Picture
Last month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center, or CMMI) released its long-anticipated white paper, ‘Innovation Strategy Center Refresh,’ outlining the Innovation Center’s strategic outlook and objectives for the next decade. These strategies are meant to drive CMMI toward its central vision: ‘A health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high-quality, affordable, person-centered care.'”
“The white paper builds on a previously released Health Affairs blog written by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other CMS leaders on the future of innovation at CMS and how the agency intends to use CMMI to advance the Biden Administration’s goals, as well as Administrator Brooks-LaSure’s September CMS blog laying out a strategic vision for the agency as a whole. The CMMI white paper looks back at lessons learned in the decade since the Innovation Center’s establishment with the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and sets out five key strategies (see image below) to propel its work into the next decade.”
“There are no specific announcements in the white paper about new models or retirement of old ones. Any action implementing the strategic plan will wait until after a CMMI stakeholder listening tour, which held its first session on November 18. In addition, since the release of CMMI’s strategic refresh, subsequent statements on CMS’ vision—most recently in a Health Affairs blog post from Administrator Brooks-LaSure and Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) Director Dan Tsai on the future of Medicaid and CHIP—reiterate the white paper’s emphasis on an agency-wide commitment to advancing equity, expanding access and coverage, and driving innovation… ” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS Innovation Center’s Strategic Plan to Drive Health System Change in the Next Decade – By Emily Carrier, Adam Finkelstein, and Katie Rubinger of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, November 30, 2021. JD Supra.
