Innovation Insights
Get a quick snapshot of Innovation Center activities to advance our strategy and support evidence-based prevention, patient empowerment, and greater choice and competition.
CMS Announces Changes to AHEAD Model to Improve Quality, Promote Transparency, and Decrease Costs
September 2, 2025
What’s new: The CMS Innovation Center announced new policy and operational changes, as well as a new end date, to the Achieving Healthcare Efficiency through Accountable Design (AHEAD) Model to help states achieve their total cost of care (TCOC) targets, while advancing the Center’s commitment to promote choice and competition, increase prevention, empower patients, and protect ta
Model Participants Drive Value-Based Cancer Care
August 25, 2025
What’s new: First reconciliation results for the CMS Innovation Center’s Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) showed cost savings for more than three quarters of participants; more than half were also rewarded for quality of care.
Proposed Changes Expand Reach of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program to Achieve MAHA Goals
August 5, 2025
What's new: CMS is proposing changes to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) to broaden the evidence-based program’s reach to more beneficiaries at risk for type 2 diabetes through an on-demand (asynchronous) online delivery option.
CMS Model Delivers Access to Sickle Cell Gene Therapy with Expansive List of State Participants
July 15, 2025
What’s new: 33 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico signed agreements with CMS to participate in the Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Access Model.
CMS Updates Accountable Care Model to Improve Model Sustainability
June 3, 2025
What’s new: The CMS Innovation Center is updating the ACO REACH Model, including its financial methodology, to ensure the accountable care pilot program can successfully achieve future cost savings.
CMS Fine-tunes and Extends Kidney Model to Rein in Spending
May 27, 2025
What’s new: The CMS Innovation Center is revising the financial methodology and participation options and extending the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model to help address early concerns about spending, while continuing quality improvements through 2027.
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