New Report Details CMMI’s Wasteful Spending and Failed Healthcare Models

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) released a new report, commissioned by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), exposing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) as a costly and largely ineffective program that has consumed billions of taxpayer dollars without delivering meaningful improvements in care. ACCF’s findings reinforce CCAGW’s longstanding concerns that CMMI has spent billions of taxpayer dollars on healthcare models that have produced limited results while creating disruptions for patients and providers.

CCAGW President Tom Schatz issued the following statement in response to the report’s release: “ACCF’s findings reinforce the fact that CMMI is a runaway program with little to show for the billions it has spent. The lack of accountability and transparency built into CMMI’s structure has produced exactly the outcome taxpayers should fear: a program run by unaccountable bureaucrats that has failed patients time and again, with no meaningful consequences for its failures. These findings underscore the need for urgent reform—and an end to the waste of taxpayer dollars.

“With Representative Aaron Bean’s introduction of H.R. 8293, the Abolish the CMMI Act, lawmakers have an opportunity to restore accountability to federal healthcare policymaking by advancing this legislation. Otherwise, the waste will continue, and taxpayers will continue footing the bill.”

Read the full ACCF report here: https://accf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ACCF_CMMIV6.pdf

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.