In July 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarded cooperative agreements to a select group of programs proposing innovative ways to improve the quality and lower the cost of care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees....

This report summarizes the evaluation findings for the Electronic Health Records Demonstration (EHRD), funded and implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A large proportion of practices (43 percent) were unable or unwilling to meet program requirements to continue...

This book chapter looks at the CMS-funded Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine demonstration. The chapter summarizes participants’ use of the technology, intervention effects on intermediate clinical outcomes, intervention effects on Medicare services’ use and cost,...

The IDEATel demonstration tested the effects of providing home-based telemedicine services to a large number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries who had diabetes and lived in medically underserved areas in New York City and upstate New York. This report updates two earlier reports to Congress and...

The IDEATel demonstration tested the effects of providing home-based telemedicine services to a large number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries who had diabetes and lived in medically underserved areas in New York City and upstate New York. This report updates two earlier reports to Congress and...

This book chapter looks at the CMS-funded Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine demonstration. The chapter summarizes participants’ use of the technology, intervention effects on intermediate clinical outcomes, intervention effects on Medicare services’ use and cost, and...

In October 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in a unique collaboration between public and private health care payers, launched the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative to improve primary care delivery in seven...

Summary for publication Background Paper for Assessing the Evaluability of the HHS Strategic Plan to End Chronic Homelessness

This report presents findings from the first year of implementing Gen.M, a teen pregnancy prevention program. It describes the program's design, facilitators' training in and delivery of the program, youth engagement in and understanding of the material it provides, and lessons learned.