Advances in Healthcare Equity: How the CMS decision to update the 2024 Physician Fee Schedule will expand access to careHailey, JanJournal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship
CMS proposes update to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule; patients with rare diseases struggle to gain expanded access to experimental treatments; a coalition of health care organizations calls on facilities to require the COVID-19 vaccine for workers. CMS Proposes ...
These changes would further the goal of advancing health equity by addressing health disparities, CMS said. They build on the Affordable Care Act's promise to expand access to quality, affordable health coverage and care by increasing access to healthcare services, simplifying choice and improvin...
Finally, AHA advised CMS to consider implementinghealth equity goals through demographic datacollection, ensuring the NDH provides definitions and health equity standards. “Again, we appreciate CMS’ focus on improving patients’ access to accurate information about their health care ...
CMS is continuing to focus on integrating health equity concepts into the expanded HHVBP model. CMS is looking at incorporating the Health Equity Adjustment like the SNF Value-Based Purchasing in FY 2027 and adding measures that more directly focus on certain disparities. Examples of these are mea...
discussions regarding CDC’s current and future work in the following topic areas: (1) data modernization; (2) laboratory quality; and (3) health equity. ACD will hear reports from its working groups on these three topics. In addition, ACD will hear an update on climate change and health....
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On 23 October 2024, the UK government set out its proposed reforms of UK law relating to the use of and access to data, with the introduction to Parliament of the Data (Use and Access) Bill (the “DUA Bill”). The DUA Bill is intended by the UK government to enhance the UK’s dig...
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the January 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to examine the association between quantitative network adequacy standards and mental health care access among adult Medicaid enrollees. January...
Administrative Simplification Standards strives to implement the adoption of national electronic healthcare records, guarantee patient privacy and security, and enforce HIPAA rules.7CMS oversees quality in clinical laboratories and long-term care facilities and provides oversight of the health insurance ...