CMMI Director Steps Down

This week, it was announced that Adam Boehler will be stepping down from his role are the Director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and Deputy Administrator of the  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Mr. Boehler was nominated to become Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, which Congress created in 2018 to merge the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Development Credit Authority. OPIC raises private capital to help development of emerging economies, and the Development Credit Authority provides credit guarantees to help financing in developing counties.

Boehler also served as a senior adviser to Secretary Alex Azar on value-based care and was heavily involved in creation of the administration’s top health policy initiatives. He worked to create models to pay primary care physicians based on value, tie prices of drugs administered in a doctor’s office to the amount other countries pay, and a drive to move more people to get dialysis in their homes.