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What’s new: CMS invites organizations committed to supporting people to build healthier lives with evidence-based, whole-person functional or lifestyle medicine interventions to apply for the MAHA ELEVATE Model; CMS will award up to thirty 3-year cooperative agreements up to a combined total of $100 million to implement programs that enhance conventional health care.
Why it matters: Interventions focused on core lifestyle choices and behavior change—such as nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, harmful substance avoidance, and social connection—may slow or prevent chronic disease and help people meet their health goals; MAHA ELEVATE will establish a critical evidence base needed to determine how these interventions can be best incorporated into care for older populations.
What to expect: Applicants must submit a mandatory Letter of Intent by April 10, 2026; applications for the first cohort of recipients are due on May 15, 2026, and the model will launch in October 2026.
The big picture: MAHA ELEVATE recipients will be at the forefront of the Administration’s bold plan to reform America’s health system into one that empowers people to take control of their health through lifestyle changes and proactively addresses the root causes of chronic disease rather than reactively addressing symptoms.
Additional details:
MAHA ELEVATE, which stands for Making America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence, is the first Innovation Center model to focus on holistic, patient-centered functional or lifestyle medicine approaches that include nutritional and/or physical activity interventions along with other psychological or self-care strategies to address the whole person rather than individual disease.
MAHA ELEVATE will provide critical data to inform future Medicare coverage determinations or potential future CMS Innovation Center models designed to improve the health of beneficiaries and cut health care costs.
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