1.State the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's mission and portfolio of programs2.Understand the three-part AIM and how palliative care can contribute to this.3.Describe some of the Innovation Advisor's projects and understand how you might integrate some of these concepts into your home organization. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) purpose is to test innovative healthcare service and payment delivery models and to reduce expenditures under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), while preserving or enhancing the quality of care provided. The preference is for models that improve the coordination, quality, and efficiency of healthcare services. The CMMI has $10 billion of funding for FY2011 through 2019. There is also a unique opportunity for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand successful models to the national level. The goal of the Innovation Advisors Program is to support the Innovation Center's development and testing of new models of care delivery and payment. It is also hoped that the advisors program will establish a network of experts in healthcare delivery system reform. The Innovation Advisors Program had more than 900 applicants. Seventy-three individuals from 27 states were selected to be part of the first cohort. It is expected that a total of 200 advisors will be selected. The advisors will refine, apply, and sustain key skill sets including operations research, systems analysis, population health and healthcare finance. The participants in this concurrent session were all chosen for the first cohort and incorporate hospice and or palliative care into their projects. The broad focus of the projects selected in the first cohort include IT and data management, 30-day reduction in hospital re-admissions, in-hospital quality and process improvement, integrated care—both disease-specific and broader—transitions, pharmacy integration, in-home care, expanding navigator roles, and payment reform. Some of the palliative care projects include the integration of palliative care into usual care for high risk patients, implementation of a palliative care medical home, and incorporation of palliative care into the emergency room, ICU, and hospice.