Medicare, Medicaid Innovation Center Charts New 10-Year Course

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation charted its strategic direction for the next 10 years, releasing a white paper that outlines a variety of goals to improve and expand health-care delivery in federal programs.

The Strategy Refresh by the innovation center, which develops unique health-care payment and delivery models for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will focus on achieving five main goals: driving accountable care; advancing health equity; supporting care innovations; improving access by addressing affordability; and partnering with health-care payers, purchasers, states, and beneficiaries to transform the delivery of care.

The innovation center is key to ...