What Are State Innovation Model Grants?: An OPEN MINDS Market Intelligence Report

This Market Intelligence Report from the OPEN MINDS team discusses State Innovation Model (SIM) grants, an initiative sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test payment and delivery model reform. SIM grants are federal grants awarded via cooperative agreement (giving the federal government a high level of project oversight) to state governments to test new health care payment and service delivery models across multiple payers, but specifically Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP in order to improve health and health care while lowering the cost of services. Thus far, the Innovation Center has awarded two rounds of SIM grant . . .