Health Care Innovation Challenge Grant Program
May 19th, 2012The Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid Services, more usually called CMS, is a federal government agency operating in the United States Department of Health and Human Services that is basically responsible for administering medicare programs and collaborating with state governments to administer medicaid services.
The grants and initiatives of the CMS are all geared towards the attainment of its primary agency mission which is to ensure health care security to all its beneficiaries.
As per this mission, the Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid Services has recently established the Health Care Innovation Challenge in an effort to solicit proposals to sanction engaging new models of service delivery that can potentially deliver the three-part aim of better health, better health care, and finally, lower costs through the improved quality of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The projects that’ll be financed under this grants program should be able to pave the way towards the accomplishment of the following objectives:
a) Inspiring 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 primarily based on areas that specialize in producing better care, better health, and the reduction of costs through substantial enhancements for the benefit of the identified target populations.
b) Identifying new models of work-force development, deployment, and related training and education programs and initiatives which will support new models either directly or through the use of new infrastructure activities.
c) Supporting able innovators who can speedily employ 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 numerous socio-economic and environmental factors, multiple medical conditions, high cost individuals, or old age.
The Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid Services is about to administer a total amount of $900,000,000 to financially support the activities comprised in the program.
The types of institutions and associations 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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