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CMS Provides Health Equity Reports to Post-Acute Care Providers

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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing health equity confidential feedback reports to post-acute care providers including home health (HH), inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF), long-term care hospital (LTCH), and skilled-nursing facility (SNF) settings. 

What else to know: The reports stratify outcomes for the Discharge to Community and Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary measures by dual-enrollment status and race/ethnicity. 

On Nov. 16, 2023, CMS hosted a live question-and-answer session to provide additional information about the reports’ methodologies and interpretations.  

The webinar recording, slides, and transcript can be found at the training web pages for HH, IRF, LTCH, and SNF