Mapping Medicare Health Disparities by Population
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.
A New Public Health Emergency in Medicaid?
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act specifies that Medicaid beneficiaries must re-determine their eligibility once the federal public health emergency is declared to have ended.
While all people who lose their Medicaid coverage qualify to enroll in the federal ACA marketplace for 2023 coverage, HHS estimates that five to ten million people will lose eligibility or choose to forego coverage.