The Health Care Innovation Awards funded up to $1 billion in awards to organizations that implemented the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly those with the highest health care needs.
The Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two are funding up to $1 billion in awards and evaluation to applicants across the country that test new payment and service delivery models that will deliver better care and lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and/or CHIP enrollees. Learn more.
Health Care Innovation Awards Round One: Awarded Projects
The CMS Innovation Center announced the first batch of awardees for the Health Care Innovation Awards on May 8, 2012 and the second (final) batch on June 15, 2012. The awarded organizations implemented projects in communities across the nation that aimed to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly those with the highest health care needs. Funding for these projects was for three years.
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Initiative Details
The objectives of the Health Care Innovation Awards Round One were to:
- Engage a broad set of innovation partners to identify and test new care delivery and payment models that originate in the field and that produce better care, better health, and reduced cost through improvement for identified target populations.
- Identify new models of workforce development and deployment and related training and education that support new models either directly or through new infrastructure activities.
- Support innovators who can rapidly deploy care improvement models (within six months of award) through new ventures or expansion of existing efforts to new populations of patients, in conjunction (where possible) with other public and private sector partners.
Awards ranged from approximately $1 million to $30 million for a three-year period. Applications were accepted by providers, payers, local government, public-private partnerships and multi-payer collaboratives. Each grantee project was monitored for measurable improvements in quality of care and savings generated.
This initiative encouraged applicants to include new models of workforce development and deployment that efficiently supported their service delivery model proposal. Enhanced infrastructure to support more cost effective system-wide function was also a critical component of health care system transformation, and applicants were encouraged to include this as an element of their proposals.
The CMS Innovation Center would like to thank all the applicants who submitted proposals for the Health Care Innovation Challenge initiative. We received approximately three thousand applications, representing tens of thousands of clinicians, information technology entrepreneurs, medical suppliers, health centers, hospitals, community-based organizations and individual citizens from every corner of the nation.
Additional Information
- Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Project Profiles
- Fact Sheet: Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Selection Process
- Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Archived Materials
Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Reports
Year One Reports
- Behavioral Health & Substance Abuse First Annual Report (PDF)
- Complex/High-Risk Patient Targeting First Annual Report (PDF)
- Community Resource Planning and Prevention First Annual Report (PDF)
- Disease-Specific First Annual Report (PDF)
- Hospital-Setting First Annual Report (PDF)
- Primary Care Redesign Programs Annual Evaluation Report (PDF)
- Shared Decision Making and Medication Management First Annual Report (PDF)
Year Two Reports
- Behavioral Health & Substance Abuse Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Complex/High-Risk Patient Targeting Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Community Resource Planning and Prevention Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Disease-Specific Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Diabetes Prevention Program Evaluation Report (PDF) | Certification (PDF)
- Hospital-Setting Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Primary Care Redesign Programs Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Shared Decision Making and Medication Management Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Meta-Analysis and Evaluators Collaborative First Annual Report (PDF)
Year Three Reports
- Behavioral Health & Substance Abuse Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Community Resource Planning and Prevention Third Annual
- Addendum (PDF)
- Complex High-Risk Patient Targeting Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Disease Specific Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Hospital Setting Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Primary Care Redesign Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Shared Decision Making Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Medication Management Third Annual Report (PDF)
- Addendum (PDF)
- Meta-Analysis and Evaluators Collaborative Second Annual Report (PDF)
- Meta-Analysis and Evaluators Collaborative Third Annual Report (PDF)
- State-Based Initiatives Systematic Review of Lessons Learned (PDF)
Year Four Reports
- Two Pager: At-A-Glance Report (PDF)
- Two-Pager: At-A-Glance Report (PDF)
Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two
On May 22, 2014, CMS announced the first batch of prospective recipients for the Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two. For more information, please visit the Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two page.
Please send your questions to InnovationAwards@cms.hhs.gov.