Medicare Beneficiaries - In the 9th Statement of Work (SOW), QIOs will address health disparities in ways that directly correlate with the CMS and QIO Program goal of ensuring safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable care for all Medicare benefi ciaries.
Health Disparities

If you live in DC, GA, LA, MD, NY or VI and you would like to receive information about free diabetes self-management education, click the appropriate link below:

Physicians
Community Health Workers
Certified Diabetes Educators
Medicare Beneficiaries

If you would like to talk with a health disparities representative, please call
1-877-746-6465.

 Throughout the United States and its territories, Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) have been aggressively engaged in evidence-based activities to reduce health care disparities. These activities are to shape and alter pathways that can ultimately lead to measurable improvements in health care outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. The QIO Program’s 9th Statement of Work includes a Sub-National Task “Prevention: Health Disparities” that seeks to provide diabetes self-management education to Medicare beneficiaries.

Health disparities are addressed throughout all three 9th SoW Themes: Beneficiary Protection, Patient Safety and Prevention; in addition to the Sub-national Tasks of Care Transitions and Chronic Kidney Diseases. The Health Care Disparities QIO Support Center (HDQIOSC) will focus on identifying individuals, sensitizing providers, and adopting appropriate interventions through evidence-based models and messaging.
This site was created by the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care through funding by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Contract #HHSM-500-2008-CO9THC/CO0001.