Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are devastating conditions for a person and their family and caregivers. The progressive course of dementia can threaten an individual’s autonomy, and families can be emotionally, physically, mentally, and financially strained. Often, a
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Interoperability and the Connected Health Care System
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remains committed to making health care data flow more freely and securely among payers, providers Read more about Interoperability and the Connected Health Care System
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Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technologies (MCIT)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to ensuring people on Medicare have quicker access to innovative medical technologies for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases – like cancer and heart disease. In January 2021, we published a final rule called The Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of ‘Reasonable and Necessary’ (MCIT/R&N). The Read more about Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technologies (MCIT)
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My First 100 Days and Where We Go From Here: A Strategic Vision for CMS
We’ve learned a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic on the ways access to comprehensive health care affects our lives and well-being. The availability of COVID-19 tests, vaccines, and treatments have saved millions of Americans from sickness and death ̶ because the federal government stepped up to make sure that every person who needs COVID-related care has access to the care they need. But the Read more about My First 100 Days and Where We Go From Here: A Strategic Vision for CMS
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Innovation At The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services: A Vision For The Next 10 Years
Note: This blog was originally posted on HealthAffairs.org on August 12, 2021. Excerpt: As incoming leaders at CMS under a new administration, we have taken stock of lessons learned from the first ten years of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s operation and begun to chart a path for the next ten years of value-based care. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) created the Center Read more about Innovation At The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services: A Vision For The Next 10 Years
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Lessons Learned from the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge
On April 30, CMS announced the winner and runner-up of the CMS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge (“AI Challenge”), a prize competition for innovators to demonstrate how artificial intelligence tools can be used to accelerate the development of AI solutions that predict patient health events for Medicare beneficiaries for potential use by the CMS Center for Medicare and Read more about Lessons Learned from the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge
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