Overview

CMS Innovation Center

About the Center

What Does the Center Do?

The CMS Innovation Center develops and tests health care payment and service delivery models to improve patient care, lower costs, and align payment systems to promote patient-centered practices.

Value-Based Care

Real-World Patient and Provider Voices

Learn how value-based care supports patients and their providers, as told through their experiences and voices.

Innovative Thinking

Expanding Accountable Care

Find out how CMS is expanding permanent pathways to bring accountable care to everyone with Traditional Medicare.

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CMS Innovation Center Reimagines Rural Health Care Approaches

New report highlights lessons learned from past Innovation Center work and insights from the 2024 Rural Health Hackathon.

Putting all patients at the center of care

The CMS Innovation Center works toward a vision of a health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high quality, affordable, person-centered care.

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Innovation Models

Models test ways to achieve better care for patients, smarter spending, and healthier communities. Learn how to participate.

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Where Innovation is Happening

Innovation Center models are implemented across the United States. Locate a participant.

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Strategic Direction

Strategies guide the Innovation Center’s efforts to drive our health care delivery system toward meaningful transformation.

Sharing Data and Evaluation Results

The Innovation Center makes model data available to ensure transparency and support external research and learning.

Models are rigorously and independently evaluated to assess their effectiveness, best practices and lessons learned.

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Value-Based Care Spotlight

Get to know the basics of value-based care, which focuses on quality of care, provider performance, and patient experience. Find real-world stories and resources to support patients and providers.

Understanding Innovation

Key Concepts

Get brief, plain-language introductions to topics that play a critical role in the CMS Innovation Center’s work, such as accountable care, health equity, and risk adjustment.

Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP)

Find out how CMS Innovation Center alternative payment models (APMs) connect to QPP. In QPP, clinicians may earn incentive payments by taking part in Advanced APMs.

Stay connected

Engage with CMS Innovation Center Models; follow us on social media or sign up to get email updates on Center announcements, results, resources, events, and other news.

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11/13/2024 06:02 PM