The Congressional Budget Office estimates that eliminating nearly $7 billion from CMS' innovation center actually raises spending by $31 billion over a decade because the center could no longer run demonstrations that CBO expects to curb Medicare spending, according to a private CBO score of the House HHS-spending bill obtained by I nside Health Policy . Health care think tanks say it's ironic that Republicans this year voted to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula with a system that relies...