One tool at their disposal is the so-called “Innovation Center” or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). The CMMI will now shift the focus of alternative payment models from Medicare to Medicaid. For certain models, cost savings to the government may not be a realistic objective. But once you’ve cut out the waste then it may be too much to expect cost savings from programs targeting critically ill cancer patients. Lowering federal expenditures appears to be the overriding goal of the CMMI models, and therefore cost savings to the government their standard measure of success.

Source: Forbes November 06, 2021 17:56 UTC