Announcements: Health Risk Assessment Recommendations Available Online

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December 16, 2011 / 60(49);1679

Final health risk assessment recommendations, published in A Framework for Patient-Centered Health Risk Assessments — Providing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Services to Medicare Beneficiaries, are now available online at http://www.cdc.gov/policy/opth/hra. The framework includes guidance for health-care providers and others in the design and application of health risk assessments and follow-up interventions that research suggests are effective in reducing some high-risk health behaviors. These final recommendations update CDC's previous Interim Guidance for Health Risk Assessments and Their Modes of Provision for Medicare Beneficiaries, published March 23, 2011 (1).

Reference

1. CDC. Interim guidance for health risk assessments and their modes of provision for Medicare beneficiaries. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2011. Available at http://www.cms.gov/center/coverage.asp. Accessed December 12, 2011.

Announcements: Health Risk Assessment Recommendations Available Online