Medicare Wants New Path for Innovation Center

The Medicare agency’s center for testing health-care demonstration projects is looking for a new path.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Sept. 20 it wants the public to weigh in with ideas and direction for its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The CMMI, created under the Affordable Care Act, is intended to be an incubator for ideas that could improve care and cut health costs.

The CMS said in a 60-day informal request for information that it’s “setting a new direction” for the center. The focus will be on eight areas, including increasing opportunities for doctors to ...