MAHA ELEVATE's $100M budget over 3 years sounds significant but when you spread that across 30 organizations and millions of Medicare beneficiaries, it's pretty thin per capita. The cooperative agreement structure is smart tho, gives CMS more control than traditional demos and lets them kill underperforming programs faster. I'm curious if the lifestyle medicine orgs that get funded will actually be able to scale beyond boutique populations once reimbursement gets real, most of these interventions require serious time investment that primary care just can't absorb.
Yeah, the question is whether they are shooting for telehealth hub-spoke models or in-person components. Unfortunately, there is usually a gap between reality and the hopes of the payment model folks.
MAHA ELEVATE's $100M budget over 3 years sounds significant but when you spread that across 30 organizations and millions of Medicare beneficiaries, it's pretty thin per capita. The cooperative agreement structure is smart tho, gives CMS more control than traditional demos and lets them kill underperforming programs faster. I'm curious if the lifestyle medicine orgs that get funded will actually be able to scale beyond boutique populations once reimbursement gets real, most of these interventions require serious time investment that primary care just can't absorb.
Yeah, the question is whether they are shooting for telehealth hub-spoke models or in-person components. Unfortunately, there is usually a gap between reality and the hopes of the payment model folks.