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CMMI Charts Fresh Course for Next 10 Years
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) outlined its goals to improve and expand healthcare delivery in Federal programs over the next 10 years in a new white paper released October 20. The Innovation Center Strategy Refresh aims to bring “describes the Innovation Center’s refreshed vision and strategy and provides examples of approaches and efforts under consideration.” CMMI’s strategy includes five main objectives: Drive accountable care: Increase the number of people in a care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care. Advance healthy equity: Embed health equity in every aspect of CMMI’s models and increase focus on underserved populations. Support care innovations: Leverage a range of supports that enable integrated, person-centered care. Improve access by addressing affordability: Pursue strategies to address healthcare prices, affordability, and reduce unnecessary or duplicative care. Partner to achieve system transformation: Align priorities and policies across the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and aggressively engage payers, purchasers states, and beneficiaries to improve quality, to achieve equitable outcomes, and to reduce healthcare costs.
Econometrica Supports Upcoming 2020 Census Data Products
Some data users, eager for more information, have asked why it is taking so long to produce data from the 2020 census. The U.S. Census Bureau aims to take the time to produce the high-quality statistics the public expects. The pandemic delayed operations, and the Census Bureau is in the midst of implementing new confidentiality protections. As plans are updated and finalized, Census will continue to keep the public informed through the About 2020 Census Data Products page. Upcoming data products will include the first results on topics not covered in the apportionment or redistricting data such as sex, relationship, and household type. There will also be more details on age, race, and vacancy status that were not part of the redistricting release.
Study Finds Landlords Are More Hesitant to Participate in ERA Programs
Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs face a lack of participation by landlords and tenants, according to a new study from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, The Housing Initiative at Penn, and NYU Furman Center, with greater refusal and unresponsiveness from landlords than from tenants.
Census Releases Redistricting Data in Additional Format
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its 2020 census redistricting data in an easier-to-use format. Data users will be able to access data with demographic information for cities and towns without downloading the FTP files.
