42 CFR § 512.446 - Health equity plans.

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title: "42 CFR § 512.446 - Health equity plans."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "512.446"
section_name: "Health equity plans."
chapter_name: "CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
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subchapter_name: "HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND MODEL PROGRAMS"
part_number: "512"
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# 512.446 Health equity plans.

(a) For each PY, an IOTA participant may voluntarily submit a health equity plan, by a date and in a form and manner determined by CMS, that meets the following requirements:

(1) Identifies target health disparities.

(2) Identifies the data sources used to inform the identification of target health disparities.

(3) Describes the health equity plan intervention.

(4) Includes a resource gap analysis.

(5) Includes a health equity project plan.

(6) Identifies health equity plan performance measure(s).

(7) Identifies health equity goals and describes how the IOTA participant will use the health equity goals to monitor and evaluate progress in reducing targeted health disparities.

(b) [Reserved]