Digital Health Blog

CMS announced its “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition” – an effort aimed at utilizing machine learning models to detect anomalies in Medicare claims data. Finalists will receive access to Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) Hospice, Part B, and Durable Medical Equipment (DME) claims. CMS will accept submissions through September 19 and will publicly announce the winner the week of December 15, 2025.

On July 30, the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its establishment of a new Health Tech Ecosystem. Over 60 data networks, health systems and providers, app developers, and payers have made voluntary commitments to adopt and align with a new interoperability framework designed to create a process for easily accessible and shareable medical information across newly created CMS Aligned Networks. HHS encourages additional health care providers and entities to become early adopters and participate in the framework. Apps included in this first round of early adopters will focus on apps that can eliminate manual check-in forms, apps that provide conversational AI assistants, and apps centered on diabetes and obesity prevention and management. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made its own commitments to update and modernize Medicare tools already available.