Medicare, Medicaid Innovation Center Charts Strategy Change

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation unveiled a new strategic direction Tuesday, focusing on ways to help empower people to achieve their personal health goals.

The center’s strategy refresh, outlined in a white paper, is designed to advance the call to action by President Donald Trump and US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “Make America Healthy Again.”

The innovation center is key to efforts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to move traditional Medicare from a fee-for-service payment model to value-based care, in which payments are determined by patient outcomes and cost ...