Feds Award $110 Million for Innovative Care Models

The Department of Health & Human Services is giving some $110 million to health care organizations that have come up with innovative ways to deliver high-quality care at lower cost.

Last May, the department announced that it was seeking applicants for as much as $1 billion in federal money for the projects. In addition to the $110 million awarded to 12 health care organizations, the agency is making $730 million available to states seeking to “design and test improvements to their public and private health care payment and delivery systems,” according to a Health & Human Services (HHS) department press release. That money has not yet been awarded.

The 12 current recipients of the Health Care Innovation Awards, profiled here, are the Altarum Institute; American College of Cardiology Foundation; Association of American Medical Colleges; Avera Health; Children’s Home Society of Florida; Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic; Four Seasons Compassion for Life; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; North Shore LIJ Health System; Regents of the University of California, San Francisco; and Regents of the University of Michigan. Additional recipients will be announced in the coming months.

Projects funded include ways to provide better care for dementia patients, to improve coordination between specialists and primary care physicians, and to ensure that children in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program get more rapid attention to dental problems.
The American College of Cardiology Foundation received one of the biggest grants – $15.8 million – for its project, called SMARTCare. The project will use a combination of clinical decision support, shared decision-making, patient engagement, and provider feedback tools designed to improve care for stable ischemic heart disease.

The federal grants will last for 3 years and are part of the Health Care Innovation Awards program created by the Affordable Care Act and administered by the innovation center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

 

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