New Enhancements Added to the Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health has expanded the Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) Tool to include several new enhancements to the Population View.                         

In the Population View, we have added data by rural and urban areas to allow users to view and compare health outcome, spending, and utilization rates across rural and urban counties. We have also added four opioid use disorder indicators to the Population View that will allow users to view prevalence, cost, and utilization rates for these new opioid indicators. Finally, we have updated the Population View with the 2017 data.

Also check out the Hospital View to see individual hospital’s metric and performance score across more than 50 quality measures and compare hospitals based on geography, hospital type, and/or hospital size.

Why use our MMD Tool? You can view and download maps and data files to learn more about health outcomes in your community! The web-based Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) Toolprovides health outcome measures for disease prevalence, costs, and hospitalization for 55 specific chronic conditions, emergency department utilization, readmissions rates, mortality rates, and preventable hospitalizations.

If you have questions or would like more information about the tool, please email us at HealthEquityTA@cms.hhs.gov.