Research & Data

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The CMS Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) offers a variety of resources to help increase awareness about health disparities. Our information products, reports on recent research efforts, data sets, and mapping tool will help you advance your work toward health equity.

The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions (PDF)

View the newly released report, which outlines the current state of health equity data collection across CMS programs, details progress to date in improving CMS data collection, and defines CMS’s future actions to continue to improve health equity data.

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Health Care Disparities Data

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Data Highlights

National and regional data on health care service utilization, spending, and quality indicators for the Medicare population.

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Data Snapshots

One-page fact sheets focused on health disparities in the Medicare population.

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Issue Briefs

Insight and examination into a variety of health and health disparity topics.

SGM Clearinghouse

Resources designed to help improve the understanding of sexual and gender minority health and disparities, and provide information on health care access, health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.

Research Reports

The CMS Office of Minority Health Research Reports span a broad range of issues, which address the Office’s informational needs and long-term research needs. These resources include high-quality and relevant health policy research through transparency of health care data and analytics.

Featured Reports

Impact of Hospital Readmissions Reduction Initiatives on Vulnerable Populations (PDF)

Opioid Prescription in Medicare Beneficiaries: Prescription Opioid Policies and Implications for Beneficiaries with Sickle Cell Disease (PDF)

Putting Patients First: Today's Disparities Research Leading to Health Equity Tomorrow (PDF)

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Stratified Reporting

Stratified Reporting provides useful information for targeting quality improvement activities and resources, monitoring health and drug plan performance, and advancing the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate quality improvement interventions and strategies.