{"id":24576,"date":"2025-06-30T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24576"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:49:46","slug":"cms-launches-new-model-to-target-wasteful-inappropriate-services-in-original-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24576","title":{"rendered":"CMS Launches New Model to Target Wasteful, Inappropriate Services in Original Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing a new Innovation Center model aimed at helping ensure people with Original Medicare receive safe, effective, and necessary care. Through the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, CMS will partner with companies specializing in enhanced technologies to test ways to provide an improved and expedited prior authorization process relative to Original Medicare\u2019s existing processes, helping patients and providers avoid unnecessary or inappropriate care and safeguarding federal taxpayer dollars. This model builds on other changes being made to prior authorization as announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CMS on Monday.  Continue reading press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-launches-new-model-target-wasteful-inappropriate-services-original-medicare\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-launches-new-model-target-wasteful-inappropriate-services-original-medicare\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width:159px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov) The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing a new Innovation Center model aimed at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,6],"tags":[80,61,1797,94,1813],"class_list":["post-24576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-waste","tag-older-adults","tag-wiser-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24577,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576\/revisions\/24577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}