How is CMS assessing and addressing the health system’s impact on climate change? How can this improve patient health and reduce costs? The Decarbonization and Resilience Initiative will help us answer these questions when it launches as part of the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) in 2026. This initiative will allow acute care hospitals to voluntarily report their greenhouse gas emissions and receive technical assistance to help them reduce their carbon footprint. To learn about this initiative, read the blog published in today’s JAMA Network: bit.ly/40CdhVd. For additional resources on this subject visit: • Just a Minute video: Why is the CMS Innovation Center launching a Decarbonization Initiative?: go.cms.gov/JAM-decarb. • Public Health on Call Podcast: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Takes A Step On Climate: https://bit.ly/4gRnCSE • TEAM Decarbonization and Resilience Initiative Fact Sheet: https://go.cms.gov/4jg4bV8 • TEAM webpage: https://go.cms.gov/TEAM
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one of the largest purchasers of health care in the world. Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provide health care for one in four Americans. The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/careers-cms/diversity-equity-and-inclusion
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http://www.cms.gov
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- Health Care Administration, Health Policy, Health Communication, Information Technology, Medicare and Medicaid, Payment Models, Project Management, Nurse Consultant, Medical Officers, Health Insurance, Actuarial, Financial Knowledge, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, Data Analytics, Medical Billing and Coding, Public Health, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Business Analyst, Writing/Editing, Quality Measurement, Process Improvement, Program Management, public health, and data science
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CMS has released the final evaluation report of the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model: https://lnkd.in/eqdUMSnb ET3 was a 5-year voluntary payment model designed to give greater flexibility to ambulance care teams to address the health care of people calling 911. For more information visit the At a Glance report: https://lnkd.in/eb-4g_9c and model webpage: https://go.cms.gov/et3.
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CMS calculates financial benchmarks, or target prices, using CMS claims data and must regularly test new benchmarking methodologies to reflect the evolving health care landscape and policy priorities. Find out more about the principles the CMS Innovation Center uses to calculate financial benchmarks for the majority of Medicare models in a new Health Affairs Forefront blog “Improving CMS Financial Benchmarking: Lessons Learned by the Innovation Center”: https://lnkd.in/eTA8Y5Gc. Go to the Benchmarking Key Concept to learn more how the CMS Innovation Center uses benchmarking and what it means: https://lnkd.in/etvy66VT.
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Registration is now open for the 2025 CMS Quality Conference: Elevating Quality - Advancing Optimal Health for Individuals, Families, Caregivers, Clinicians, and Communities. Join us for three full days and be part of this highly anticipated healthcare event on March 17-19, 2025, in Baltimore, MD. Register and save your spot today! #QualCon25 https://go.cms.gov/3DQSQuK
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In 2024, the CMS Innovation Center launched a new initiative to strengthen the focus on quality in our models. Since its launch, the Quality Pathway Initiative has refined new approaches to model design, emphasized person-centered care in models, and bolstered evaluation approaches. Read more about implementation of the Quality Pathway and how it helps to improve care through rapid dissemination and expansion of successful model tests in today’s Health Affairs Forefront blog: go.cms.gov/quality-pathway.
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For many individuals, life after incarceration can be overwhelming. Our Coverage to Care reentry resource can help those you serve learn more about how to take care of their physical and mental health while making a return to the community. https://go.cms.gov/4fPsO8v #Coverage2Care #ReEntry
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Sarena Ho of the CMS Innovation Center joined Practical Neurology’s Expert Voices in Dementia Podcast to discuss the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. 🎧Tune in to learn how the GUIDE Model can support the delivery of coordinated, patient-centered care for people with #dementia and their caregivers: https://go.cms.gov/4j8IOFr. To learn more about the model visit: • The GUIDE Model Webpage: go.cms.gov/GUIDE • “Why Does GUIDE Model Provide Caregiver Support?” Just a Minute video: go.cms.gov/GUIDE-JAM
The CMS GUIDE Model To Support Patients with Dementia and Their Caregivers - The Neurology Hub
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Find out how the CMS Innovation Center uses lessons learned from past models to inform future model tests in a new blog released today. For example, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) was informed by previous episode-based payment models that generated both gross savings and increased discharges to home from the hospital. The blog also describes how we use what we learn from models to chart a path to what ultimately might be expanded or scaled nationally to Medicare and Medicaid programs. Read more in the “Success Models, Scaling Pathways and the CMS Innovation Center” blog: go.cms.gov/42cSFE3.
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Nominations are now open for the 2025 CMS Health Equity Award! Help us recognize organizations committed to advancing health equity by reducing disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes in communities that are medically underserved. Awardees will be recognized at the 2025 CMS Health Equity Conference in April. Nominations close on February 18. Learn more about the award and submit a nomination today: https://go.cms.gov/4fMIXez #HealthEquityCon25 #HealthEquity #HealthDisparities
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