Commonwealth Fund June 15, 2022
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Medicare and Medicaid can promote health equity through health care payment and delivery system reform
The federal government is newly prioritizing health equity in Medicare and Medicaid; shifting to equity-focused payment reform can help move the needle
In several commentaries over the past six months, leaders from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) have announced advancing health equity as a top priority. This emphasis is a result of CMMI’s review of the first 10 years of the Innovation Center, which showed that equity was not a priority in model design, participant recruitment, or evaluation. In our review of the past decade of evidence on these experiments, we identified the...
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