CMS Chronic Conditions Dashboard

A new Medicare Chronic Conditions Dashboard was announced last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The dashboard offers researchers, physicians, health professionals, and policymakers an easy-to-use tool to get current data on where multiple chronic conditions occur, which services they require, and how much Medicare spends helping beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.

The dashboard is part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Initiative on Multiple Chronic Conditions, established in 2009. Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Strategic Framework was developed to serve as a national road map for HHS as well as public and private stakeholders to use to coordinate and improve the health of beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.

The dashboard helps users find, analyze, and apply summarized data from CMS’ Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse. The dashboard will promote better understanding of overlapping medical conditions related to overall patient health, helping to identify common concurrent conditions and areas where prevention and treatment can improve care and lower costs.

Find CMS’s Medicare Chronic Conditions Dashboard at http://www.ccwdata.org/business-intelligence/chronic-conditions/index.htm. Data can be broken down by state on categories such as 30-day readmission rates per number of chronic conditions, emergency room visits by numbers of chronic conditions and per capita Medicare spending for national/state.

The release of the dashboard reflects the Administration’s continued commitment to increasing the accessibility and usability of federally held data wherever possible and appropriate. Previous initiatives include the Medicare Data Sharing for Performance Measurement program, the Health Data Initiative, and CMS’s provision of data to support care coordination to Accountable Care Organizations and State Medicaid programs.

Find CMS’s Medicare Chronic Conditions Chartbooks and other reports here.