Amy Bassano – CMS Amy Bassano, MA, is currently serving as the acting director of the Patient Care Models Group in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this role she leads the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative and the development of physician specialty models. Prior to assuming her position in CMMI, Ms. Bassano was a senior advisor to the director of the Center for Medicare at CMS, where she led several Medicare payment reform efforts. She previously was the director of the Hospital and Ambulatory Policy overseeing Medicare payment policy for a variety of areas including inpatient and outpatient hospitals, physicians, ambulatory surgical centers, and Part B drugs. She also served as the director of the Division of Practitioner Services and the director of the Division of Ambulatory Services in the Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group. Prior to working at CMS, she was a program examiner at the Office of Management and Budget where she was the lead Medicare analyst on Medicare Part B and D issues. Ms. Bassano has an MA degree in policy studies from Johns Hopkins University and a BA degree in history from Tufts University.