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.
Donor Name: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
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, 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.
Funding Information
- Expected total funding for the program: $100 million, subject to the availability of funds.
- Funding range per applicant for the period of performance: Up to $3.3 million over a three-year performance period.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include any organization that meets the requirements outlined in this NOFO. Individuals are not eligible to apply. Examples of eligible applicants may include, but are not limited to:
- Private medical practices.
- Health systems and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
- Academic organizations.
- Functional, lifestyle, preventive, and integrative medicine centers.
- Community-based organizations (CBOs).
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
- Rural Health Clinics (RHCs).
- Indian Health Service/Tribal Services/Urban Indian Programs (ITUs).
- Local and state governments.
Organizations in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
