Strengthening Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid Act

This bill changes the rules for how the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation tests new health care payment and delivery models. It limits first-phase model tests to 5 years and to the lesser of 10 percent of eligible people or 500,000 beneficiaries, and caps new first-phase models at 6 per year, with no more than 5 mandatory models tested at once. It requires the Secretary to send proposals to test, expand, or change a model to Congress, which would have 45 days to block them by joint resolution. It also adds hardship waivers for providers, public notice and comment periods, restored court review in some cases, annual reports to Congress, and public release of the actuarial data used to judge models.

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Sponsors

• Adrian Smith Republican sponsor
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