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Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the annual update to the Drug Spending Dashboards with data for 2021. These dashboards are interactive, online tools that allow consumers

By Allison Oelschlaeger, CMS Chief Data Officer and Director of the Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics and Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, CMS Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare

Approximately 61 million Americans live in rural Tribal, and geographically isolated communities across the United States. These communities often experience significant health inequities. Compared to

By Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Douglas Jacobs, MD, MPH, Jean Moody-Williams, RN, MPP, Lee Fleisher, MD, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

A True Focus on Data to Advance Health Equity

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has released “The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions”

By LaShawn McIver, M.D., MPH Director of the CMS Office of Minority Health

 

Background

In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established a goal to have 100 percent of Original Medicare beneficiaries and the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries in

By Liz Fowler, JD, PhD, Purva Rawal, PhD, Sarah Fogler, PhD; Brian Waldersen, MD, MPH;, Meghan O’Connell, MPH; Jacob Quinton, MD, MSHS