title: Recruiting agents of reform. CMS healthcare program seeks innovators at local level.
abstract: The CMS is going local in its latest effort to spark innovation. Teams of "innovation advisers" are being sought to devise and carry out reform initiatives in their communities. "Until recently, Medicare's role has been to pay the bills. In the last 10 years, Medicare has been seeing its role--more appropriately, I think--as providing access for their beneficiaries to the care they need," says Stuart Guterman, left, of the Commonwealth Fund.
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authors: Zigmond
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States