The CMS Innovation Center has published a document that shares its strategic direction for the coming years.
Driving Health System Transformation – A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center’s Second Decade reviews the lessons the agency has learned over the past ten years and lays out its objectives for the next ten:
- Drive Accountable Care – increase the number of people in a care relationship for quality and total cost of care.
- Advance Health Equity – embed health equity in every aspect of CMS Innovation Center models and increase focus on underserved populations.
- Support Care Innovation – leverage a range of supports that enable integrated, person-centered care such as actionable, practice-specific data, technology, dissemination of best practices, peer-to-peer learning collaborations, and payment flexibilities.
- Improve Access by Addressing Affordability – pursue strategies to address health care prices, affordability, and reduce unnecessary or duplicative care.
- Partner to Achieve System Transformation – align policies and priorities across CMS and aggressively engage payers, purchasers, providers, states, and beneficiaries to improve quality, to achieve equitable outcomes, and to reduce health care costs.
In addition, the document summarizes the lessons the CMS Innovation Center has learned over the past ten years, outlines future approaches to assessing the agency’s impact, and presents an implementation strategy for the coming years.
Learn more about what the CMS Innovation Center has in mind for providers, payers, and patients in the agency’s new document Driving Health System Transformation – A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center’s Second Decade and find a summary of the document here.