Data & Reports
One Year of Innovation: Taking Action to Improve Care and Reduce Costs (PDF)
In the year since opening its doors, the Innovation Center’s work is well underway. It has introduced 16 initiatives (see Table at end of report) involving over 50,000 health care providers that will touch the lives of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in all 50 states and will continue to expand its partnerships and reach in the years to come. These initial efforts are focused on improving patient safety, promoting care that is coordinated across health care settings, investing in primary care transformation, creating new bundled payments for care episodes, and meeting the complex needs of those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
Innovators Guide to Navigating Medicare (PDF)
With a Medicare budget of approximately $460 billion and serving nearly 46 million beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plays a key role in the overall direction of the health care system. CMS has developed the Innovators’ Guide to Navigating Medicare to assist stakeholders in understanding the processes used to determine coverage, coding, and payment for new technologies under the Medicare fee-for-service program.
(Note: this document does not address the provision of the Affordable Care Act)
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