FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael King at 240-571-9542
We are honored that Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), has been selected to serve on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Healthcare Advisory Committee (HAC) to improve patient care and modernize the U.S. health care system.
The HHS and CMS HAC will focus on providing recommendations that:
- Develop actionable policy solutions to prevent and better manage chronic disease;
- Advance accountability for safety and outcomes while reducing unnecessary administrative burden;
- Expand the use of real-time data to support higher quality of care, speed up claims processing, and improve quality measurement;
- Enhance care for vulnerable populations, including those served by Medicaid; and
- Strengthen Medicare Advantage sustainability, including modernizing risk adjustment and quality measurement.
Through our patient-governed boards and workforce of over 330,000, Community Health Centers (CHCs) serve more than 52 million patients—1 in 7 Americans, including 1 in 3 in rural America—delivering affordable, comprehensive, and effective primary and preventive care to patients in rural, urban, frontier, island, mountain, and suburban communities in over 17,000 locations across the nation. This appointment ensures those voices help inform national policy at a critical time.
With his experience and expertise from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Dr. Rhee looks forward to supporting efforts that strengthen our health care system, expand access, improve health outcomes, reduce administrative burden and costs, focus on prevention and patients, and ensure every community has the opportunity to thrive.
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About NACHC
NACHC’s mission is to champion Community Health Centers delivering affordable, effective, comprehensive primary care that is community-driven and improves health for all. For more information, visit www.nachc.org.