Why has Medicare’s Innovation Center failed?

The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently convened a hearing on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

Although the center “was created over a decade ago and provided billions in funding and broad authority to find ways to save taxpayer dollars and improve health outcomes for patients,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) noted, “it has little to show in demonstrated successful outcomes.” Why is this so?

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