Innovation Challenge Grants Announcement Expected Tuesday
Various media outlets are reporting that the CMS Center for Innovation (CMMI) will announce grant recipients for the "Health Care Innovation Challenge" on a conference call tomorrow. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMMI director Rick Gilfillan will chair the call. In November, CMMI announced that "up to $1 billion dollars will be awarded to innovative projects across the country that test creative ways to deliver high quality medical care and save money". Many health care providers and professional associations believed the grant announcement would come sooner but CMMI had to delay the distribution of awards due to the high number of applications that were submitted. To read more about the challenge, click here. To learn more about CMMI, click here.