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CMS has evolved from a financial body to overseeing healthcare quality, including health equity - Amy Helwig
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Health Equity Measures Determine The Impact Of New CMS Regulations And Funding
CMS is the United States' largest health insurer. Additionally, they are responsible for ensuring that Americans receive quality, effective, and efficient healthcare. But, how did CMS become the champion for driving improvements in health equity? It stems from a history marked by evolving from an entity established by law as the financial backer of healthcare to also becoming a major influencer on clinical care and healthcare quality through data collection, analysis, and quality improvement programs. When Medicare was established, CMS quickly realized that greater financial oversight was needed, as well as a way to ensure services that the government (and its taxpayers) were paying for were…
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A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Lens Toward Value-Based Preventive Care and Population Health
The Million Hearts Model and the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program expansion mark new ways of paying for preventive services. Instead of reimbursing providers for individual preventive services, these models offer incentives to providers to address the health of their whole patient population and use new methods of delivery, such as lifestyle coaches in community-based settings.
At CMS, the Mission Is Broader Than Medicare and Medicaid
CMS is far from everyone's favorite agency, and not everything it is doing works perfectly. But CMS’s responsibilities for the ACA and its proactive approach to payment reform mark a return to a broader mission. The marketplace is taking signals from policy and payment changes made at CMS.
What Clinical Quality Measures Mean to Healthcare Providers
Clinical quality measures are a cornerstone of efforts to improve care delivery and patient outcomes.
Working to Improve Medicare and Medicaid
Everything we do at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services serves one goal: to dismantle a status quo that thwarts innovative, high-quality health care.
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CMS serves the public as a trusted partner and steward, dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes.
