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Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is an organization that helps the government improve how healthcare is given to people who are older or have disabilities. It's like when you want to make a toy or a picture better, you take it apart and look at each part to see how it works. This organization does the same thing with healthcare to find new and better ways to help people get healthy and stay well.

They use lots of ideas and experiments to test what works best to keep people healthy or help them feel better when they're sick. Sometimes they give new programs or services to all the people who have Medicare, which is health insurance for older adults, to see how it affects them. Other times, they might try new ways to pay doctors and nurses to care for people that do a better job of treating them.

This organization aims to find the best way to help people get healthy, improve healthcare quality, and lower healthcare costs. They want people to have access to the best healthcare possible, and are always looking for new and innovative ways to make this happen.