TY - JOUR T1 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 Brief: Unsettling Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - S13 LP - S15 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200450 VL - 34 IS - Supplement AU - Eli Y. Adashi AU - Philip A. Gruppuso Y1 - 2021/02/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S13.abstract N2 - 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. ER -