Title Collaboration Type HHS Participating Agencies NIH Participating Institutes, Centers, and Offices Description
Clinical Research Using Medicare Data from the Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) Research Initiative CMS NLM The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and other Institutes and Centers at NIH work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to demonstrate the value of the CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) as a source of data for research purposes. NLM's health information standards and discovery research uses the VRDC to answer useful epidemiologic and clinical questions, specifically about drug benefits and possible harms.
Clinical Vocabulary and Standards Development for Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records Resource Development OS, CDC, CMS, FDA, ONC NLM The National Library of Medicine (NLM) collaborates with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the Office of the Secretary for HHS to develop, maintain, and disseminate clinical terminologies and codes related to health information technology, electronic health records, and messaging. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit.html
CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare Federally Funded Research & DevelopmentCenter (Health FFRDC) Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS, ACF, AHRQ, ASA, ASFR, ASPE, ASPR, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, OASH, OCIIO, OGA, OIG, ONC, OS, SAMHSA CC, NCATS, NCI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAID, NICHD, NIDA, NLM As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), the Alliance To Modernize Healthcare a.k.a. "Health FFRDC" provides unique access to unbiased strategic insights, analyses, and best practices to accelerate and optimize business transformation.   Formally established under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 35.017, FFRDCs meet special, long-term research and development needs integral to the mission of the sponsoring agency.  FFRDCs operate in the public interest, free from conflicts of interest, and are managed and/or administered by not-for-profit organizations, universities, or industrial firms as separate operating units.More information at https://www.cms.gov/data-research/research/alliance-modernize-healthcar… 
CMS Caregiver Workgroup Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS, ACL, CDC, HRSA NIA Cross-section of organizations such as caregiver organizations, aging network organizations, federal agencies, disease specific organizations, employers and CMS. 
CMS-Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Dietary Supplements, Measures of Malnutrition and Frailty Health Survey CMS OD/DPCPSI/ODS The National Institutes of Health's, Office of Dietary Supplements works with the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Service to collect data on dietary supplement use, malnutrition and measures of frailty in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Study (MCBS). MCBS is a continuous, in-person, longitudinal survey of a representative national sample of the Medicare population.
CMS-NIH Emergency Department Subgroup Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS NIDA With focused participation from both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and experts across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the CMS-NIH Emergency Department (ED) Subgroup is designed to accelerate collaboration between these two HHS Operating Divisions around issues involving SUD treatment initiation among people who present to the ED. 
CMS-NIH Joint Leadership Council Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS NCCIH, NCI, NHLBI, NIA, NICHD, NIDA, NIDDK, NIMHD, NINR, OD/DPCPSI, OD/IMOD, OD/OER, OD/OSP Facilitates leadership-level development of mutual priorities between both Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) operating divisions.
CMS-NIH Joint Leadership Council Evidence Generation Working Group (EGWG) Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS NCI, NIA, NIDDK, NIMH, OD/OSP Organized in January 2018 for the purpose of developing a framework to enable the agencies to jointly address high-cost conditions; to consider the applicability of clinical trial results to Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiaries; and to collaboratively identify evidentiary and policy issues of high mutual interest.
CMS-NIH Opioid Working Group Subgroup on Evidence for Nonpharmacological Treatments for Pain Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS NCATS, NCCIH, NIAMS, NIDA Discusses NIH/CMS partnerships in discussing nonpharmacological pain treatments and bridging research/policy gaps. 
CMS-NIH Sickle Cell Disease Working Group Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CMS NHGRI, NHLBI Working group that meets to explore what is required to implement CMS coverage for curative therapies in SCD.