CMS Innovation Center Launched To Jumpstart Payment Reform
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The CMS Innovation Center will move the agency away from a piecemeal payment approach to a coordinated one that will lower Medicare and Medicaid program costs, CMS Administrator Donald Berwick said during the Nov. 16 formal launch of the center.
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