CMS Aims to Remodel RMADA With $2.5 Billion Recompete

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting market research on a follow-on to RMADA, its five-year multiple-award contract with a $7 billion ceiling, according to a request for information issued Feb. 20.

RMADA was released after passage of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), laws that require CMS to study how to redesign how health care is provided and financed in the U.S.

RMADA focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on analysis of the uninsured and those getting care through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). CHIP ...