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Mapping Medicare Health Disparities by Population

Medicare Advantage · June 2, 2023 · Comments off

March 18, 2023
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Background

CMS has created and maintains a new tool for mapping Medicare health disparities by population (MMD).

The MMD interactive tool contains health outcome measures for disease prevalence, costs, hospitalization for 60 specific chronic conditions, emergency department utilization, readmission rates, mortality, preventable hospitalizations, and preventive services.

The MMD Population View provides a straightforward way to explore and better understand disparities in chronic diseases, and allows users to: 1) visualize health outcome measures at a national, state, or county level; 2) explore health outcome measures by age, race and ethnicity, sex; 3) compare differences between two geographic locations (e.g., benchmark against the national average); and 4) compare differences between two racial and ethnic groups within the same geographic area.

Conclusion

The MMD tool can help new SNP plans develop a basis for their Model of Care specific to their geography and population.

Next Steps

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic!  Does the MMD tool provide benefit to health plans developing or enhancing a health equity strategy?

TripleAim Strategy Advisors can help stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem by providing insights and develop and implement strategies to advance equitable, value-based care.

Contact us to discuss this topic or see additional ways we can help!

Don

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