Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
CMS Offers New Data Tool Based On Demographics
Published on Fri Apr 22, 2016
You probably know if your patient population is at risk for relatively low outcomes based on racial and ethnic disparities, but now a new CMS tool will back up your belief.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has issued an interactive data tool to “increase understanding of geographic disparities in chronic disease among Medicare beneficiaries,” CMS says in a release. The Mapping Medicare Disparities tool “presents healthrelated measures from Medicare claims by sex, age, dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid, race and ethnicity, and state and county.” A link to the tool is online at https://blog.cms.gov/2016/04/11/mappingmedicare-disparities.
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