#WheresAbe? In July, CMS Innovation Center Director Abe Sutton traveled to Chicago, to connect with CMS staff and model participants as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again. Highlights: • Abe met with our CMS Chicago Regional Office team to discuss the Innovation Center’s new strategy and how the agency can best work together to reach our shared goal of delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. This team is critical for helping advance Innovation Center priorities. • He also had the opportunity to visit Miles Square Health Center at the University of Illinois - a Federally Qualified Health Center participating in the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) Model. MDPP aims to slow the progression of Type 2 diabetes by providing evidence-based lifestyle intervention education to Medicare beneficiaries with prediabetes. The goal is to help patients build sustainable habits to better manage their health and prevent the onset of diabetes. The Miles Square team shared real-world challenges they face in patient recruitment and retention and some of the strategies they are using to overcome them. These strategies include: - Home Tech Support: Community health workers visit patients at home to assist with setting up and using technology, - Staff Training: All staff are trained to identify eligible patients and engage them throughout their visit, - Logistics Support: Coordinated efforts to support in-person attendance, including transportation and childcare assistance. What’s ahead: To better support patients in MDPP, the CMS Innovation Center has proposed updates to include a new on-demand online delivery option in MDPP: (URL to Innovation Insight). This virtual, asynchronous approach would give patients the flexibility to complete the program at their own pace, in their own space. This effort furthers our focus on expanding access to evidence-based prevention services – ensuring that more beneficiaries can participate in models that help them stay healthy and avoid disease progression. The Innovation Center looks forward to continued collaboration with model participants and communities across America to find new ways to empower patients to live healthier lives. • Learn more about MDPP: go.cms.gov/3HmzS0W • Explore the CMS Innovation Center strategy: go.cms.gov/strategy
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Great to see CMS focusing on real-world solutions to help people access preventive care. Love the emphasis on tech support and flexible options—meeting patients where they are makes a huge difference.
Great work, Abe Sutton
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Thanks Jack Kalavritinos for bringing this post to our attention.
Love seeing CMS spotlight real-world solutions that remove barriers to care. At Ceresti Health, we know how powerful it is to meet patients and caregivers where they are—especially in complex conditions that aren’t easy to manage from the clinic alone.