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CMS Releases Interactive Tool to Map Medicare Disparities

Healthcare Informatics: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health released an interactive map, called the Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool, to increase understanding of geographic disparities in chronic disease among Medicare beneficiaries.

The Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool identifies disparities in health outcomes, utilization and spending by race and ethnicity and geographic location. “The MMD tool is expected to help government agencies, policymakers, researchers, community-based organizations, health providers, quality improvement organizations and the general public analyze chronic disease disparities, identifying how a region or population may differ from the state or national average. Understanding geographic differences in disparities is important to informing policy decisions and efficiently targeting populations and geographies for interventions CMS stated in a media release,” CMS stated in a media release.

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