Becker's Healthcare April 20, 2022
Georgina Gonzalez

CMS has released a multipronged health equity strategy to be used throughout the agency and is encouraging healthcare leaders to get involved in creating sustainable, equitable strategies, CMS reported April 20.

Each CMS office has been charged with improving health equity by embedding several strategies into all work. The strategies include expanding outreach of existing programs, evaluating policies to determine how CMS can support safety-net providers and expanding and standardizing the use of data.

CMS is also encouraging health leaders to take health equity seriously and fold it into their own system’s strategies. To do so it...

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