The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently announced a six-year payment model for 2026-2031 called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model. WISeR will test ...
The U.S. healthcare system is under constant pressure to manage resources effectively, particularly in federal programs like Medicare. To tackle this issue, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
WISeR will require prior authorization for 17 kinds of services that CMS has linked to overuse, waste, fraud, and abuse The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking to reduce the ...
Berwick is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is a senior fellow for health policy and Ducas is the VP of health policy at the Center for American Progress.