An advisory panel created by the Department of Health and Human Services to advise the agency on how to improve the financing and delivery of health care by Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and through the health insurance marketplace held its first public meeting earlier this week.
HHS’s Healthcare Advisory Committee, which consists of 15 members, discussed its bylaws and heard presentations from the leaders of its six workgroups. Those workgroups are:
- Reducing Administrative Burden
- MAHA by Improving Wellness and Preventing Chronic Disease
- Deploying Real-Time Data
- Improving Care for Vulnerable Populations
- Strengthening Medicare Advantage
- Crushing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Learn more about the meeting from the MedPage Today article “HHS Panel That Aims to Reshape U.S. Healthcare Holds Its First Meeting” and learn more about the committee and its members from the HHS Healthcare Advisory Committee web page.
