In late October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its strategy and vision for the CMS Innovation Center in a white paper, Innovation Center Strategy Refresh, which will inform how value-based care payment models are designed and evaluated over the next decade. Two major goals for this next period of development and transformation for payment and service delivery models in Medicare and Medicaid are decreasing the burden of spending on individuals, households, states, and the federal government; and improving health equity by reducing the impact of health disparities.
