To comprehensively address and eliminate health disparities, it is necessary to measure and publicly report – in a standardized and systematic way – the nature and extent of health care disparities. 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.
The CMS Office of Minority Health welcomes your questions about the stratified data contained in these files or how health plans could utilize these data for quality improvement purposes, please contact CMS Health Equity Technical Assistance at: HealthEquityTA@cms.hhs.gov.
