CMS Awards $655M For Second Round Of State Innovation Initiative

CMS announced Tuesday (Dec. 16) $655 million in awards to 28 states, three territories and the District of Columbia to test ways to deliver and pay for care. More than half of states are participating in the innovation initiative, which the Affordable Care Act created. The funding covers both states that are designing plans and states that are actually testing new approaches. CMS awarded the brunt of that funding, $622 million, to 11 states to implement state health...