Overview
CMS Innovation Center
About the Center
What Does the Center Do?
The CMS Innovation Center develops and tests health care payment and service delivery models to improve patient care, lower costs, and align payment systems to promote patient-centered practices.
Value-Based Care
Real-World Patient and Provider Voices
Learn how value-based care supports patients and their providers, as told through their experiences and voices.
Innovative Thinking
Expanding Accountable Care
Find out how CMS is expanding permanent pathways to bring accountable care to everyone with Traditional Medicare.
Putting all patients at the center of care
The CMS Innovation Center works toward a vision of a health system that achieves optimal outcomes through high quality, affordable, person-centered care.
Innovation Models
Models test ways to achieve better care for patients, smarter spending, and healthier communities. Learn how to participate.
Where Innovation is Happening
Innovation Center models are implemented across the United States. Locate a participant.
Strategic Direction
Strategies guide the Innovation Center’s efforts to drive our health care delivery system toward meaningful transformation.
Sharing Data and Evaluation Results
The Innovation Center makes model data available to ensure transparency and support external research and learning.
Models are rigorously and independently evaluated to assess their effectiveness, best practices and lessons learned.
Understanding Innovation
Key Concepts
Get brief, plain-language introductions to topics that play a critical role in the CMS Innovation Center’s work, such as accountable care, quality of care, and risk adjustment.
Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP)
Find out how CMS Innovation Center alternative payment models (APMs) connect to QPP. In QPP, clinicians may earn incentive payments by taking part in Advanced APMs.
Stay connected
Engage with CMS Innovation Center Models; follow us on social media or sign up to get email updates on Center announcements, results, resources, events, and other news.
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03/12/2025 05:00 PM