CMS plans to award up to 30 three-year cooperative agreements totaling as much as $100 million to organizations focused on “evidence-based, whole-person functional or lifestyle medicine interventions” to launch programs that enhance conventional healthcare, with the goal of slowing or preventing chronic disease. The initiative will fund up to 30 chronic disease prevention and health promotion pilot projects aimed at integrating lifestyle and evidence-based functional medicine into original Medicare.
Applicants must submit a letter of intent by April 10. Applications for the first cohort are due May 15, and the model is slated to launch in October.
The program is intended to generate evidence to determine how lifestyle and functional medicine interventions can be incorporated into care for older populations and could help inform future Medicare coverage determinations. |
