Make America Healthy Again - Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- CMS-2W2-27-001
- Agency
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $3,300,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Unrestricted
- Points of contact
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- Maha Elevate Team mahaelevate@cms.hhs.gov
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center is soliciting applications for the Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence (MAHA ELEVATE) program, a voluntary, three-year service delivery model designed to test evidence-based, whole-person functional and lifestyle medicine approaches within the Original Medicare population. The program seeks healthcare organizations capable of implementing comprehensive interventions that combine psychological, nutritional, and physical services with personalized lifestyle-based strategies for chronic disease prevention and early treatment. Eligible applicants include private medical practices, health systems, accountable care organizations, academic organizations, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and other qualified healthcare entities across all 50 states and U.S. territories. Evaluation will be based on a 100-point merit review system assessing whole-person functional and lifestyle medicine intervention design (45 points), beneficiary recruitment and retention plans (20 points), organizational capacity (15 points), data management capabilities (10 points), and budget narrative (10 points). A letter of intent must be submitted by April 10, 2026, with full applications due May 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time through Grants.gov.
CMS will award up to 30 cooperative agreement awards totaling approximately $100 million, with each recipient receiving approximately $3.3 million over the three-year performance period, distributed across two cohorts beginning in October 2026 and October 2027 respectively. Funding is structured on a milestone-based system with 60 percent contingent upon meeting operational milestones and 40 percent tied to achieving minimum beneficiary enrollment targets. Award recipients must demonstrate experience delivering the proposed intervention, possess robust data collection and management capabilities, maintain liability insurance, enroll in Original Medicare where applicable, and successfully recruit and retain beneficiary participants across the United States.
Synopsis
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI or Innovation Center), is soliciting applications for the Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle & Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence (MAHA ELEVATE) Model. This voluntary, three-year service delivery model is designed to test evidence-based, whole-person functional or lifestyle medicine ("whole-person FLM") approaches to care. Rather than treating diseases separately after they develop, MAHA ELEVATE takes a proactive, comprehensive approach that combines psychological, nutritional, and physical interventions with personalized, lifestyle-based strategies for prevention and early treatment.
Throughout this NOFO, we use the term "whole-person FLM" to represent a range of services or approaches often incorporated in lifestyle and functional medicine that are not currently covered under Medicare. It is important to clarify that CMS is not establishing a new industry standard through the use of this terminology. The term "whole-person FLM" as used in this NOFO does not represent an attempt by CMS to create, define, or establish any new industry-wide standard, practice guideline(s), or healthcare delivery model beyond the scope of this specific Innovation Center model and funding opportunity. Similarly, through this funding opportunity, CMS is not creating a new category of covered services for Medicare purposes. This term serves solely as a descriptive reference within this document to facilitate clear communication about the non-covered services being tested in this model and should not be interpreted as having any regulatory, coverage, or policy implications beyond the context of this specific Innovation Center model.
CMS will select a total of up to 30 Recipients to participate in MAHA ELEVATE. The model will be split into two cohorts, one year apart (years 2026 and 2027).
CMS will select recipients based on five key criteria:
• Whole-person FLM intervention design, including cost savings.
• Beneficiary recruitment and study design.
• Organizational and administrative capacity.
• Data management capabilities.
• Budget.
Highly competitive applicants must demonstrate several important strengths:
• Strong, evidence-based support for your proposed intervention(s) and
proof of your own successful history of implementation of the
intervention and cost savings.
• Ability to recruit large numbers of participants with a clear randomization
plan and advanced data management capabilities.
Given the model's minimum beneficiary targets and extensive data management requirements, applicants who do not directly provide clinical care are strongly encouraged to form partnerships with care entities or organizations that deliver clinical care. This collaboration helps ensure you can meet the full operational requirements of the program.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| cms-2w2-27-001-93-779-v4.pdf | ||
| cms-2w2-27-001_v5.pdf |
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