CMS issued an interactive tool for mapping geographic disparities in chronic diseases among Medicare beneficiaries.
Present online, the tool can be utilized to pinpoint disparities in health results, medical utilization and spending by race, ethnicity, and geographic location.
The Mapping Medicare Disparities tool’s main features involve a dynamic interface, the capability to sort by various population subsets and built-in benchmarking
With the interface, consumers can see information on the prevalence of 18 chronic conditions, end-stage renal disease, and disability. It also has data on Medicare spending, hospital. and emergency department utilization, preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, and death rates.
Consumers can sort by residence, sex, age, dual Medicare/Medicaid eligibility, race and ethnicity using either by aggregate state or county-specific data. The benchmarking feature permits uses to investigate disparities within and across racial and ethnic groups.
The agency established the tool — part of the CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare — in collaboration with KPMG and NORC at the University of Chicago.
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