Strategic Initiatives
This initiative is focused on decreasing the rate of opioid use disorder and reduce deaths by focusing on preventing opioid overuse, increasing access to treatment, and targeting improvements through data analysis.
What is Fighting the Opioid Epidemic?
This initiative plans to increase number of beneficiaries from 22.2M in Medicare Advantage plans by a 9.5% change compared to July 2019 baseline, demonstrating value of greater choice access and affordability.
What is Strengthening Medicare?
Making Informed and Value-Driven Decisions: Historic Final Rule
What is Price Transparency?
The CMS Agency Wide Objective
What is "Improve the nation's health and quality of life."?
This initiative is focused on reducing unnecessary regulatory burden to allow providers to concentrate on their primary mission to improve patient health outcomes and reduce cost.
What is Patients Over Paperwork?
This initiative plans to increase the number of nursing homes receiving targeted technical assistance to improve COVID containment and improve the quality of care of low-performing nursing homes who have infection control challenges.
What is Ensuring Safety & Quality?
Premiums for Healthcare.gov Plans are Lower for 3rd Consecutive Year
What is Marketplace Choice & Affordability?
The last step in the Strategic Management Cycle
What is Track, monitor & refine?
This initiative is focused on moving our health care system to one that incentivizes value by rewarding quality and performance, lower program costs, innovation and improved health outcomes.
What is Innovative Payment Models?
This initiative plans to increase # of states participating in HC Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) by 10 in FY2021
What is Protecting Taxpayer Dollars?
Addressing Health Disparities
What is Rethinking Rural Health?
One of the 4 attributes of a good objective
What is Directional goal of what should be achieved
Concrete & Concise
Action-Oriented
Meaningful & Inspiring?
This initiative is focused on unleashing data, in a private, secure and usable format, to give patients control of their health care information and allow that data to follow them throughout their health care journey.
What is MyHealtheData?
This initiative plans to have 50% more technologies utilizing clarified and streamlined local coverage determination processes
What is Fostering Innovation?
Use Mobile Friendly Medicare Plan Finder
What is eMedicare?
One of the 3 themes listed on the outer circle of the Strategic Initiatives Wheel
What is Focus on Results
Empowering Patients
Unleashing Innovation?