Health Payer Intelligence June 16, 2022
Medicare’s race and ethnicity data does not comply with federal standards for data collection and requires improvement.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has discovered that Medicare’s race and ethnicity data was less accurate for minority groups—particularly for those who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Hispanic—and that these discrepancies could have real impacts on health equity efforts.
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made advancing health equity a top priority. Ensuring that Medicare is able to assess disparities is key to this goal,” the report explained. “The ability to assess health disparities hinges on the quality of the underlying race and ethnicity data.”
OIG used Medicare’s enrollment database which...
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