Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards, Round 2: Final Report

Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards, Round 2: Final Report

Published: Sep 15, 2020
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Mathematica
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Lessons Learned from Evaluation of Locally Driven Innovations in Health Care Delivery

Time frame: 2015 – 2020

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

Authors

Randall Brown

Robert Schmitz

Lauren Vollmer Forrow

Jim Derzon

Rizwaan Lakhani

Under the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)’s Round 2 of the Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA R2), 39 organizations received a three-year cooperative agreement, beginning in September 2014, to implement their proposed models for improving the quality of care and health, and for lowering the cost of care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiaries. HCIA R2 built on the first round of HCIA funding with a focus on (1) reducing costs in outpatient or post-acute care settings; (2) improving care for patients with special needs; (3) improving health by enhancing patient engagement, disease prevention, and wellness efforts; and (4) fostering new payment models to support service delivery innovations.

This report is divided into two parts. Part I synthesizes the main findings from the impact evaluation. Part II provides the 38 awardee-specific evaluation reports that form the basis for the synthesis report.

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