Three States To Join All-Payer Health Equity Demo, Hawaii Status Pending

Maryland, Vermont and Connecticut will participate in CMS’ new all-payer demo, where they can receive up to $12 million to collaborate on curbing health care cost growth, improving population health and advancing health equity across their Medicaid, Medicare and private coverage populations, the Biden administration announced this week . Hawaii is expected to participate too, pending the completion of certain requirements, CMS says. CMS announced in September 2023 the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model, which...