Read All About it! CMS Innovation Center Publishes New Articles on Quality, Benchmarking, and Decarbonization

Published today! CMS Innovation Center provides updates and perspectives on quality pathway implementation, financial benchmarking, and the decarbonization and resilience initiative in articles featured in Health Affairs Forefront and JAMA.

• “Benefits of Quality Pathway Implementation at the CMS Innovation Center,” published in Health Affairs Forefront, details how implementation of the Center’s Quality Pathway aims to improve patient care through rapid dissemination and expansion of successful tests of models. Ultimately, the goal is to identify successful models or aspects of models that could be expanded to improve the quality of health care in the United States.
  
  
• “Improving CMS Financial Benchmarking: Lessons Learned by the Innovation Center” also in today’s Health Affairs Forefront outlines principles the Innovation Center uses to calculate financial benchmarks, or target prices, for the majority of its Medicare models. It also describes financial considerations for setting a benchmark and lessons-learned from previous model benchmarking.
  
  
• “The CMS Innovation Center’s Role in Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions” published in JAMA, discusses how the Innovation Center will assess and address the health system’s contributions to climate change in an effort to improve patient health and reduce costs.

You can find links to all these blogs and more at the CMS Innovation Center Blogs and Publications page.

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