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First, Do No Harm

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm.

As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our

By Lee Fleisher, MD., Michelle Schreiber, MD., and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

CMS Drug Spending Dashboards and the Inflation Reduction Act

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the annual update to the Drug Spending Dashboards with data for 2021. These dashboards are interactive, online tools that allow consumers

By Allison Oelschlaeger, CMS Chief Data Officer and Director of the Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics and Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, CMS Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare

Addressing Rural Health Inequities in Medicare

Approximately 61 million Americans live in rural Tribal, and geographically isolated communities across the United States. These communities often experience significant health inequities. Compared to

By Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Douglas Jacobs, MD, MPH, Jean Moody-Williams, RN, MPP, Lee Fleisher, MD, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions

A True Focus on Data to Advance Health Equity

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has released “The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions”

By LaShawn McIver, M.D., MPH Director of the CMS Office of Minority Health