Administration Updates
HHS: Readout of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's Visit to Seattle to Host APEC’s High-Level Meeting on Health and the Economy (SOM3 2023) (8/7) – Secretary Xavier Becerra hosted his global health counterparts from around the world for the High-Level Meeting on Health and the Economy (HLMHE) during which he discussed the importance of health equity in the economy.
Medicaid.gov: Increasing Access, Quality, and Equity in Postpartum Care in Medicaid and CHIP A Toolkit for State Medicaid and CHIP Agencies (8/8) – This toolkit provides practical information to help state Medicaid and CHIP agencies maximize the use of existing authorities to increase postpartum care access, quality, and equity for Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries. The toolkit also includes a strategy checklist and suggestions for partnering with Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans to implement quality improvement (QI) strategies.
HHS: Helping People with Low Incomes Navigate Benefit Cliffs: Lessons Learned Deploying a Marginal Tax Rate Calculator
(8/9) – HHS released a calculator to help people anticipate how a change in earning from employment would affect their net income, and in so doing, provide public benefit recipients with their estimated effective marginal tax rate on new earnings.
CMS: Social Determinants of Health Items: Determining When a Proxy Response is Allowed (8/10) – CMS created a short, animated explainer video was developed to assist providers in accurately determining when the use of a proxy response is allowed for the following SDOH factors: ethnicity, race, language, transportation, health literacy, and social isolation.
CMS: Making Care Primary Request for Applications (8/14) – CMMI issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for its Making Care Primary (MCP), a new CMMI advanced primary care model with a focus on health equity that aims to reduce program expenditures and improve key measures of patient outcomes through more coordinated, integrated, whole-person care. Applications are due by November 30.
CMS: ACO REACH Model Performance Year 2024 (PY2024) Model Updates (8/15) – CMS announced changes to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model starting in performance year 2024 that are expected to improve the model in several ways, including by further advancing health equity.
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