Healthcare Finance News April 21, 2022
The plan will focus on access, outcomes and outreach to better reach those living in underserved populations.
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a multi-pronged action plan geared toward promoting health equity, which will be enacted throughout the agency and will focus on access, outcomes and outreach to better serve marginalized populations.
CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure has charged each CMS center and office – including the Center for Medicare (CM), the Center for Medicaid and CHIP (CMCS), Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) – with building health equity into their core work.
That work, the agency said,...