May 25, 2021: MGMA and other leading healthcare organizations offer recommendations to new CMMI Director to improve APMs

May 25, 2021 

Elizabeth Fowler, PhD, JD
Deputy Administrator and Director
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 310G-04
Washington, DC 20201

Dear Deputy Administrator Fowler:

On behalf of the undersigned physician organizations, we congratulate you on your appointment to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). We look forward to partnering with you and your team to advance new models that can improve patient care while lowering health care costs. We are encouraged to learn that CMMI is reassessing its strategy and considering different approaches to health care transformation. We believe that utilizing models designed by practicing physicians will enable CMMI to accelerate value-based payment and care delivery for patients with Medicare and Medicaid.
 

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