Two Congressional leaders, U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-MA), chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), ranking member of the committee, are calling for greater transparency from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) as it develops new delivery and payment models, and are urging agency leaders to reform their processes to enable more input from industry stakeholders.
CMMI has been notably quiet in the first two years of the Trump Administration. Adam Boehler, the former CEO of home-based care startup Landmark Health, was named CMMI Director back in April. In a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, Neal and Brady note that Congress established CMMI “to test different innovative delivery system and payment models to improve quality and reduce costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.”
