Medicare Policy Change Will Advance Equity Among Hospitals ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will introduce a health equity adjustment in 2026 focusing on hospital performance and payments ...

CY 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System ...

The final rule advances the agency's commitment to strengthening Medicare and uses the lessons learned from the COVID-19 public health emergency ...

Health Equity Adjustment and Hospital Performance in the Medicare ...

Importance Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program will provide a health equity adjustment (HEA) to hospitals that have ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on LinkedIn: Medicare Policy ...

A Medicare policy change will introduce a health equity adjustment intended to address socioeconomic inequities that affect US hospitals.

CMS Announces New Policies to Reduce Maternal Mortality ...

Another way CMS is improving health equity for underserved communities in the final rule is by removing barriers to ensure that people with ...

Health Equity Adjustments in Medicare HVBP Program Will Benefit ...

Considering those concerns, CMS finalized significant policy changes to the HVBP program aiming to advance health equity, including the HEA for ...

What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' New ... - KFF

In September 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new opportunity for states to leverage federal funding ...

HHS Finalizes New Policies to Support Underserved Communities ...

“The fiscal year 2025 inpatient hospital payment rule will ensure that hospitals in historically underserved areas will be able to provide high- ...

Advancing health equity through organizational change

Disparities in health that exist across communities are evidence of differences in health care access and treatment, and the social conditions and physical ...

Fact Sheet: Advancing Health Equity Across HHS

Record Expansion of Health Care Coverage · Quality Affordable Health Care: HHS has continued its commitment to making health insurance available ...

Project 2025's Medicare Changes Would Restrict Older Americans ...

Currently, Medicare enrollees are split almost evenly between TM and MA. The Heritage Foundation's extremist agenda, Project 2025, calls for MA ...

The future of Medicare Advantage - McKinsey & Company

In 2024, US health insurers will have to navigate changes in demographics, regulations, and member preferences. We look at the impact on ...

Promoting Health Equity by Changing How We Pay for Care

For example, in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, providers ...

Achieving Equity in an Evolving Healthcare System - PubMed Central

National policies have been implemented in phases throughout the last two decades to reduce and eliminate health disparities, and more recently, attain the ...

Medicare and Health Equity | GoHealth

Key Takeaways · Medicare has contributed to making access to healthcare more equitable since the program's founding in 1965. · Hospitals that accepted Medicare ...

Medicare 2.0: Comprehensive Reform To Strengthen America's ...

From a health care policy standpoint, Medicare must be deployed to drive positive change in the delivery system and to advance health equity.

CMS Forwards Its Health Equity Agenda Through Its Annual ...

If finalized for implementation in FY 2024, the proposed changes would allow CMS to use the near-term payment years to implement reporting ...

Any Medicare Solvency Effort Must Include Advancing Health Equity

How Will Advancing Health Equity Address Medicare Insolvency? · Policy Options to Advance Health Equity and Save Medicare · To make these changes, ...

CMS Proposes Rule to Advance Health Equity, Improve Access to ...

“Improving transparency of our health care system can help support people with Medicare get the high-quality, whole-person care they need,” said ...

CMS seeks input on how to advance equity, reduce burden in ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks comments through Nov. 4 on the challenges individuals face accessing health care services ...