What's Happening Now
- Promoting value for seniors and persons with disabilities
- Innovation Awards program promotes lower costs, higher quality
- Consumers offered transparent look at hospital charges
- New funds available to expand Senior Medicare Patrol Program
- Round 2 DME suppliers announced
- Final 2014 Part C & D payment rate announcement
- In 2012 nearly 3.5 million people saved on prescriptions
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- 50th anniversary of May as Older Americans Month
- Health Care Innovation Awards, round two - details
- Reforming our health care system - learn more
- New safeguards and incentives proposed to reduce fraud
- Details available for expansion of competitive bidding program
- Increased Medicaid matching rates expand coverage
- Seniors saved over $6 billion on prescription drugs
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Health Care Innovators on Innovation
The Health Care Innovation Awards fund up to $1 billion in awards to organizations that are implementing the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, lower costs, and improved care to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. Round One of Awards focused on implementing ideas that benefitted those with the highest health care needs. Round Two is in progress, and is focusing on new payment and service delivery models. More information on the Health Care Innovation Awards can be found here: http://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/Health-Care-Innovation-Awards/
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