CMS Outlines Strategy to Advance Health Equity, Challenges Industry Leaders to Address Systemic Inequities

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outlined an action plan on April 20 that demonstrates the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing efforts to provide high-quality, affordable health care for all people, regardless of their background, and to drive health equity across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Building on the agency’s commitment to make health equity the first “pillar” of its strategic vision, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure invited healthcare industry leaders to make commitments to advance health equity and work with CMS to share best practices to address systemic inequities in the delivery of care.