The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out an Innovation Center model Friday to test new prior ...

Abe Sutton, a health policy aide in the first Trump administration, is likely to be named head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS. Skip to Main Content.

Dr. Oz’s Medicare leadership team includes health policy experts Chris Klomp, Stephanie Carlton and Abe Sutton.

P hysicians should expect to see more Medicare alternative payment models that involve downside risk, Abe Sutton, JD, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), said Tuesday.

The strategy aligns with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which focuses on chronic disease, CMMI Director Abe Sutton said during a call Tuesday.

Medicare's innovation center plans to put more emphasis on empowering consumers to make personal choices in ... and choice and competition," director Abe Sutton wrote in the strategy ...

Dr. Oz’s Medicare leadership team takes shape. Health policy experts Chris Klomp, Stephanie Carlton and Abe Sutton appear favored for senior roles in the emerging Trump administration.

Sutton worked closely with senior Trump officials such as Adam Boehler, who led Medicare’s innovation center; Joe Rogan, who oversaw domestic policy; and Brian Blase, who worked on economic policy.