Medicare Innovation Center to Cancel Select Payment Trials

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the cancellation of several trials in an effort to change the way health providers are paid while shifting to the new strategic goals of the Trump administration.

Innovation center models are time-limited trials aimed at improving patient care and lowering costs while operating under a controlled environment to “determine what approaches should be expanded nationwide, what specific components of an approach need further testing in successor models and what approaches are not viable for expansion.” The center was created under the Affordable Care Act to test different ways to provide and reimburse for health services.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation plans to end several trials to better align with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative.  

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