The Center for Medicare Innovation launches "New Strategy to Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA).
There was a webinar on May 13, 2025, led by CMS Administrator Dr Mehmet Oz, and Innovation Center director Abe Sutton.
Here's a summary from the announcement:
Building on 15 years of Innovation Center experience and lessons learned, the strategy focuses on three pillars:
- Promote evidence-based prevention. Prevention will be part of every model; interventions will be closely monitored to ensure they are on the path to certification for expansion, contributing to broader disease prevention, health promotion and reduced overall costs.
- Empower people to achieve their health goals. The Center will increase patient access to information and tools for disease management and healthy living and align financial incentives with health.
- Drive choice and competition. The Center will reduce administrative burden and increase independent provider participation in models, giving patients more options for care at a lower cost.
See also: A memo by the center's director, Sutton, here. See a CMS Newsroom Blog by Sutton here. A CMS website on innovation strategy priorities here.
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Sutton was featured in an article at Stat Plus back on January 15, 2025. As I wrote at the time,
- Abe Sutton, who's crammed McKinsey, White House, Harvard Law School, and Rubicon Advisors into the last several years, was said to be a pivotal figure in a big, cross-agency renal program rolled out by the prior administration in 2019.
