Health Care Innovation Challenge
Page 2a) Encouraging a broad set of innovation partners that would help in the process of determining and evaluating new care delivery and payments models that are all based on areas that specialize in producing better care, better health, and the reduction of costs through substantial improvements for the benefit of the identified target populations.
b) Identifying new models of workforce development, deployment, and related training and education programs and initiatives that will support new models either directly or through the utilization of new infrastructure activities.
c) Supporting able innovators who can rapidly deploy care improvement models within six months into the award period, through the creation of new ventures or the expansion of current initiatives to new populations of patients and health care centers.
In addition, the CMS has also stipulated that the proposals to be submitted under this grant greatly focus on high cost/high-risk groups such as those communities with multiple chronic diseases and/or mental health or substance abuse issues, poor health status resulting from various socio-economic and environmental factors, multiple medical conditions, high cost individuals, or old age.
The Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid Services is set to administer a total amount of $900,000,000 to financially support the activities comprised in the program.
The types of institutions and organizations who are considered eligible to submit an application under this program are those of provider groups, health systems, private sector organizations, faith-based organizations, city and township governments, local governments, public-private firms, and for-profit organizations.
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