The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its Innovation Center are doubling down on preventive care while striving to shift care away from the traditional acute care hospital. For ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), that could mean – at least in theory – more opportunities to participate in innovative payment models in the not-too-distant future. On May 13, CMS and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) unveiled their “Making America Healthy Again” vision, outlining key priorities in white paper written by CMMI’s director, Abe Sutton. Specifically, those priorities are to promote evidence-based prevention, empower health care consumers and drive choice, according to Sutton.
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Source: https://ascnews.com/2025/05/cms-innovation-strategy-teases-focus-on-outpatient-care-and-potential-opportunities-for-ascs