Eastern Michigan University professor Tsu-Yin Wu awarded Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services grant to improve health insurance disparities among racial and minority groups
YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eastern Michigan University professor Tsu-Yin Wu has received a federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Navigator cooperative agreement award of nearly $800,000. The funding will help Wu lead a broad effort to assist the uninsured and other underserved communities in Calhoun, Kent, Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties in Michigan.
- YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eastern Michigan University professor Tsu-Yin Wu has received a federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Navigator cooperative agreement award of nearly $800,000.
- Wu, professor of nursing at Eastern's College of Health and Human Services, will serve as a CMS navigator on a cooperative agreement with the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM).
- Wu will also participate in connecting communities that historically have experienced lower access to health coverage and more significant disparities in health outcomes to health coverage.
- The award totals $794,730 annually for three years and is the only grant of its kind to a university in Michigan this year.