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</div><div class="ds-l-md-col--5 ds-u-padding-x--0 ds-u-md-padding-x--2 ds-u-padding-top--1 ds-u-md-padding-top--0 ds-u-leading--base"><h2 class="ds-u-font-size--h3 ds-u-md-font-size--h2 ds-u-leading--base ds-u-color--primary-darkest ds-u-margin-bottom--2">CMS Framework for Health Equity</h2><div class="ds-u-leading--base ds-u-margin-bottom--2"><p>CMS released an updated framework to further advance health equity, expand coverage, and improve health outcomes for the more than 170 million individuals supported by CMS programs. The framework sets foundation and priorities for CMSs work strengthening its infrastructure for assessment, creating synergies across the health care system to drive structural change, and identifying and working to eliminate barriers to CMS-supported benefits, services, and coverage.</p><p class="ds-u-margin-bottom--0"><a href="/media/529636">Read the CMS Framework for Health Equity 2022-2032. (PDF)</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ds-l-row"><div class="ds-l-col--12 ds-u-padding-x--0 ds-u-md-padding-x--2"><div class="ds-u-fill--gray-lightest ds-u-margin-bottom--1 ds-u-padding-y--2 ds-u-padding-x--2 ds-u-leading--base"><p class="ds-u-margin-bottom--1"><strong>The Five Health Equity Priorities for Reducing Disparities in Health</strong></p><p>These priorities will inform CMSs efforts for the next ten years and how the Agency may operationalize each priority to achieve health equity and eliminate disparities. Each priority area reflects a key area in which CMS stakeholders from communities that are underserved and disadvantaged express that CMS action is needed and critical to advancing health equity. Together, the five priorities provide an integrated approach to build health equity into existing and new efforts by CMS and our stakeholders.</p></div></div></div><div class="ds-l-row ds-u-padding-x--2 ds-u-lg-padding--0 ds-u-margin-y--3 ds-u-lg-margin-y--4"><div class="ds-l-col--12 ds-l-md-col--4 ds-u-padding-x--0 ds-u-md-padding-x--2"><article class="align-center media media--type-image media--view-mode-embedded">
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