This initiative will fund applicants who propose compelling new models of service delivery/payment improvements that hold the promise of delivering the three-part aim of better health, better health care, and lower costs through improved quality for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children?s Health Insurance
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Program (CHIP) enrollees.
Successful models will include plans to rapidly develop and/or deploy the requisite workforce to support the proposed model.
Awards will recognize interventions that show capability to improve care within the first six months of the award, while creating a sustainable pathway to net Medicare/Medicaid/CHIP savings within two to three years.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:Health Care Innovation Challenge
Additional Information of Eligibility:The intent of this initiative is to engage with a wide variety of innovators.
Interested parties of all types who have developed innovations that will drive significant improvement in three-part aim outcomes are welcome to apply.
Examples of the types of organizations expected to apply are: provider groups, health systems, payers and other private sector organizations, faith-based organizations, local governments, and public-private partnerships and for-profit organizations.
In addition, certain organizations could be eligible to apply as conveners ? assembling and coordinating the efforts of a group of participants.
Conveners could serve as facilitators or could be direct award recipients.
States are not eligible to apply under this funding opportunity.
Legal Status: To be eligible, an organization must be recognized as a single legal entity by the state where it is incorporated, and must have a unique Tax Identification Number (TIN) designated to receive payment.
The organization must have a governing body capable of entering into a cooperative agreement with CMS on behalf of its members.
Full Opportunity Web Address:https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=13123Contact: Grants.gov Contact CenterPhone Number: 1-800-518-4726Hours of operation are Monday-Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Timesupport@grants.gov
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Agency Email: support@grants.gov
Date Posted: 2011-11-14
Application Due Date: 2012-01-27
Archive Date: 2012-02-26