Andy Slavitt may be best remembered for his two-year role as Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), after the Obama administration tapped him to help fix the troubled healthcare.gov rollout in 2013.

His experience in that role seems to have instilled in Slavitt an appreciation of grassroots value-based care initiatives, and an understanding of keys to success for population health vs. individual health approaches.

“I think people say the same thing about healthcare: ‘Oh, we’ll never be able to control the cost. We’ll never be able to deliver better care,’” he told Forbes. “The reality is, if you think big, start small and move fast, you actually can.”

Accordingly, Slavitt has launched a new, private effort — The Medicaid Transformation Project — which will attempt to align, improve communication between, and transform care delivery for 17 member hospital systems, which are estimated to serve over half the country’s Medicaid population.

Each member system will commit to a two-year plan to improve Medicaid care delivery, especially in four primary areas: emergency room utilization, behavioral health, infant and women’s health, and substance abuse treatment.

In addressing those areas with individually tailored solutions, the project aims to improve overall population health.

Learn more here, from Forbes‘ Michela Tindera.