PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Adashi, Eli Y.
AU  - Gruppuso, Philip A.
TI  - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 Brief: Unsettling Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200450
DP  - 2021 Feb 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - S13--S15
VI  - 34
IP  - Supplement
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S13.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S13.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2021 Feb 01; 34
AB  - On June 22, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled an aggregate data set on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on its beneficiaries. The CMS brief is especially noteworthy for offering COVID-19-related racial and ethnic health disparity data on a national scale, thereby extending reports heretofore limited to states, cities, or health systems. The CMS COVID-19 brief exposes distressing racial and ethnic health disparities. It is the objective of this commentary to trace the origins of the CMS COVID-19 brief, discuss its salient findings, and consider its implications.