WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CMS are establishing the Healthcare Advisory Committee, a group of experts charged with delivering strategic recommendations directly to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. The overall goal: To improve how care is financed and delivered across Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as the Health Insurance Marketplace.
“Every American high-quality, affordable care – without red tape, corporate greed or excessive costs,” Kennedy said. “This new advisory committee will unite the best minds in health care to help us deliver real results, hold the system accountable and drive forward our mission to Make America Healthy Again.”
CMS is accepting nominations for committee members with expertise in three areas:
Chronic disease prevention and management;
Federally administered health care financing; and
Delivery system reform
Individuals may either self-nominate or be nominated by an organization.
The committee will focus on developing:
Actionable policy initiatives to promote chronic disease prevention and management;
Opportunities for a regulatory framework of accountability for safety and outcomes that reduce unnecessary red tape and allow providers to focus on improving patient health;
Levers to advance a real-time data system, enabling a new standard of excellence in care, rapid claims processing, rapid quality measurement, and rewards;
Structural opportunities to improve quality for the most vulnerable in the Medicaid program; and
Sustainability of the Medicare Advantage program, identifying opportunities to modernize risk adjustment and quality measures to assess and improve health outcomes.
Committee members will be selected later this year.
For more information or to submit nominations, visit the Federal Register Notice at: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-16136.