Opportunities for CMS to improve healthcare access and equity ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to achieve ...

They will also develop health equity reporting metrics in their quality improvement programs. In addition, they plan to increase access and ...

Health Care Equity | The Joint Commission

Improving health care equity requires the efforts and engagement of many people in the health care industry, from organizations at a national level, individual ...

CMS Launches the Framework for Health Equity

It updates the previous Medicare-focused CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare with an enhanced and more comprehensive 10-year ...

CMS's New Plan Improves Health Equity Data Collection

CMS Final Rule Improves Health Equity, Access to Treatment, Hospital Readiness, and More · Access to Cancer Care · COVID-19 · Patient Financial ...

Value-Based Care: What It Is, and Why It's Needed

CMS aims to have all Medicare beneficiaries and most Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in accountable care programs by 2030, and the agency is ...

Health Care Access and Quality - Healthy People 2030

Health Care Access and Quality — General · Reduce the proportion of emergency department visits with a longer wait time than recommended — AHS‑09. Little or no ...

How healthcare companies are held accountable for health equity

CMS is encouraging healthcare organizations to improve their own capacities to identify and eliminate inequities, efforts that include more ...

APG Response to CMS on Make Your Voice Heard

CMS wants to further advance health equity across programs by identifying and implementing policies that may help eliminate health disparities.

CMS Health Equity Toolkit - The New Jersey Hospital Association

This NJHA toolkit, Meeting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Reporting Requirements for Health Equity, provides an overview of the CMS Framework ...

What State Advocates Should to Know: CMS' New AHEAD Model

Levers to improve population health, address health equity, and curb rising cost growth. Funding to support opportunities to support Model ...

Health Equity in Focus: CMS' Framework for a More Inclusive ...

Attendees discussed how telehealth options could be improved for those with disabilities, how care could be optimized for patients by removing ...

Cognizant—Bracing for the impact of CMS' Health Equity Index

range of capabilities that will improve access to care and reduce ... opportunities to improve social need referral processes and the partnerships that ...

CMS Releases New Health Equity Strategic Plan - AAMC

The CMS intends to engage health care leaders in its work, beginning with convenings this summer focused on improving maternal health outcomes.

How the Updated CMS Health Equity Framework Will Improve ...

This CMS framework is an important step toward improving healthcare access and the member experience for those facing uphill health equity ...

CMS' Health Equity Strategy - Medecision

Closing gaps in care, access and outcomes for underserved populations · Promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate services · Improving ...

Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New ...

Our recommendations are grounded in three overarching goals for the US health system: access, affordability, and equity. Access. Every American ...

Insights from the CMS Health Equity Conference

The conference agenda covered a wide range of sessions addressing disparities and improving outcomes for underserved populations across various facets of ...

CMS Hosts Health Equity Conference: Key Insights and Perspectives

Another policy issue that came up during the conference related to the need to expand access to telehealth services for the treatment of ...

Achieving Health Equity: How the CMS Framework Affects ... - Brenmor

To better address systemic inequalities in America's health care system and following an executive order from President Biden, CMS is ...

Equity at HHS

HHS agencies work together to collectively advance equity in support of public health, medical care, human services, and well-being. You can ...