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Value-based care, independent and rural physicians, and lifestyle choices all will have a role in Making America Healthy Again, according to Medicare’s top leaders.
Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), presented the agency’s plan with CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton, JD, director of the CMS Innovation Center, and Gita Deo,MPH, Innovation Center chief of staff and senior adviser.
With rising costs but more chronic disease, the American health care systems is at a critical juncture, they said.
“Let me start with a simple premise: Great societies protect their most vulnerable, and we’re a great people, so we’re going to do just that alongside partners like you,” Oz said in a webinar roll-out of the plan. “CMS is going to provide Americans access to excellent care, especially those who need our help the most, disadvantaged youth, those with disabilities and our seniors.
“I believe we have a generational opportunity to give people power over their health and to save our health care system from costs that are rising faster than our economy,” Oz said. Solutions and innovations are born from tough realities, and change will take hard work, he said.