Very Brief Blog: CMS Releases New Report on Innovation Center Plans

There's a running joke that any given pharma is constantly restructuring one more time, and let's add, the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) is perpetually offering one more new vision of itself. 

Here's the latest.  Download a new 32-page PDF white paper on plans for the Innovation Center in the coming years.  

https://innovation.cms.gov/strategic-direction-whitepaper

See trade press:

• Healthcare Dive here.
• Bloomberg Law here.
• Becker's here.

Sorry, but most predictable buzz phrase: "Partnering to Achieve System Transformation."  

For a contrast, see McKinsey's recent report on the excessive $1 trillion we spend a year on administration and policy - here.

For recent reports on CMMI (cited in the new white paper) see MEDPAC 2021 (chapter 2) here and National Academy of Medicine (9pp) here.