CMS Releases New Provider Toolkit for Sickle Cell Disease

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new resource: CMS Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Health Care Provider Toolkit: Resources for Health Care Professionals to Support Individuals with SCD .

This new toolkit builds on the CMS Sickle Cell Disease Action Plan (released in September 2023) to strengthen the infrastructure for primary care and other care settings to care for people with SCD, improve care management, and assist providers with supporting the needs of people with SCD and other chronic conditions. The SCD Toolkit consists of 6 sections that equip healthcare providers in delivering quality care to individuals with sickle cell disease. This toolkit is designed to assist the care team in supporting people by introducing SCD, including the common barriers to care, and summarizing CMS program coverage for services around social determinants and drivers of health as well as and new sickle cell disease treatments.

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