On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, we are excited to announce the 2023 date for the nation's premier healthcare quality conference: the CMS Quality Conference! I welcome you to join us virtually on May 1-3, 2023.

This annual conference serves as a critical opportunity for discussions around improving the quality of care and advancing equitable practices and outcomes for beneficiaries. Healthcare quality is at the core of the work CMS and its contractors do every single day.

NCQA wants to look ahead through the eyes of tomorrow’s leaders, who are inspiring the future of American health care. The Quality Talks are meant to inspire action to tackle the real and pressing problems in our health care system, and to dismantle barriers to a better future.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, will host the inaugural CMS Health Equity Conference on June 7 - 8, 2023. CMS invites the submission of presentation proposals. Authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their research on a topic-specific panel and in the poster gallery at the conference.

Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, will be a panelist at this event. Our state’s investment in health data infrastructure through the CalHHS Data Exchange Framework and CalAIM initiatives could improve health and health equity for generations of Californians. But this is achievable only if all providers across the care continuum – small and large, rural and urban – can seamlessly exchange health information for all Californians, including the most vulnerable who rely on Medi-Cal, Medicare, and public health support.