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CURRENT OPPORTUNITY

Title: CMS Lifestyle Medicine Trials (MAHA ELEVATE)

Link: Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle & Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence (MAHA ELEVATE) Model

Description: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), is soliciting applications for the Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle & Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence (MAHA ELEVATE) Model. Supports development of three-year service delivery model interventions 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. 

LOI due date: April 10, 2026

Application due date: May 15, 2026

Application length: Brief LOI. Full application up to 26 pages but involves completing basic templates.

Funding level: up to $1 million per year times x 3 years. $100 million total investment with anticipation of 30 awards with applications funded in two cohorts, one in 2026 and another funded in 2027.

Eligibility: includes academic institutions as well as health plans etc.

Funding criteria:

• 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 Medicaid / Medicare participants with a clear randomization plan and advanced data management capabilities.