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Americans shouldn’t have to worry about not being able to afford prescriptions, or that a bill from the doctor could send them into bankruptcy. That’s why the Biden-Harris Administration has made it a

By Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, CMS Administrator and Dr. Ellen Montz, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO)

Note: This blog was originally posted on HealthAffairs.org on August 8, 2022.

Excerpt: Providers and payers are increasingly addressing the health-related social needs (HRSNs) of their patients to

By Kate Johnson, Christine Ogbue, Katherine Verlander and Natalia Barolin

Note: This blog was originally posted on HealthAffairs.org on July 21, 2022.

Excerpt: As the nation’s largest health care payer, responsible for more than one in five dollars spent on health care

By Douglas Jacobs, Elizabeth Fowler, Lee Fleisher, Meena Seshamani
The CMS Framework for Health Equity depicts how CMS will operationalize efforts to achieve health equity across CMS programs in the next decade.
By By: LaShawn McIver, MD, MPH, Director of the CMS Office of Minority Health