Section 2(d) of the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 calls for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), to conduct a study evaluating the effect of individuals’ socioeconomic status (SES) on quality measures and measures of resource use under the Medicare program. The first component of the required work, a 2016 Report to Congress, focused on socioeconomic information currently available in Medicare data. Following up on ASPE’s first Report to Congress, HHS is interested in:
- How plans and providers serving Medicare beneficiaries identify beneficiaries with social risk factors
- Approaches plans and providers have used to address the needs of beneficiaries with social risk factors
- Evidence regarding the impact of these approaches on quality outcomes and the total cost of care
- Ways in which plans and providers disentangle beneficiaries’ social and medical risks and address each
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The comment period for this request closed on November 16, 2018.
Public Comments
- All Comments*
- Adventist Health Policy Association
- Adventist Health System
- Altarum
- Allina Health 1
- Allina Health 2
- AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- American Board of Family Medicine
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American Hospital Association
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- America's Essential Hospitals
- America's Health Insurance Plans
- Anthem
- Ascension
- Association for Community Affiliated Plans
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- Benefits Data Trust
- Better Medicare Alliance
- BJC HealthCare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Blue Shield of California
- Catholic Health Association of the United States
- Centene Corporation
- Center for Health Care Strategies
- Change Healthcare
- Cigna
- Clover Health
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Community Based Coordination Solutions
- Community Health Network Foundation
- Constellation Health
- DHR Health
- Federation of American Hospitals
- Greater New York Hospital Association
- Health Alliance
- Healthcare Association of New York State
- Healthfirst
- Humana
- Justice in Aging
- Lyft
- Maxim Healthcare Services
- Medica Health Plan
- MCS Advantage
- Medical Home Network
- Miami Jewish Health
- Michigan Medicine
- MMM Healthcare
- Molina Healthcare
- Mountain-Pacific Quality Health
- Movement is Life
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- OCHIN
- Ochsner Health System
- Otter Tail County Public Health
- PACE Michigan
- PACE of Rhode Island
- Paramount Healthcare
- Parkland Health & Hospital System 1
- Parkland Health & Hospital System 2
- Parkland Health & Hospital System Cover Letter
- Patient Pattern
- Pennsylvania Homecare Association
- Renuka Tipirneni
- SCAN Health Plan
- Simon&Co.
- Special Needs Plan Alliance
- Timothy L. Kauffman
- UnitedHealth Group
- UnityPoint Health
- University of Maryland Health Advantage
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
- WellCare Health Plans
- Ye Zhu
*Merged file of all submitted comments. This file excludes the submissions from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Centene Corporation due to limitations in the original files that prevent merging.
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