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State Network
Publication
May 2018 Rachel Block,
Providers, payers, and state policymakers are moving to implement behavioral health integration (BHI) models as evidence of their effectiveness builds. But many states face an obstacle—the lack of a health care workforce that has the legal authority, training, and skills necessary to practice in these new models. How can states accelerate the development of a BHI workforce? More
News Article
March 2018
The Fund is hiring a new program officer. The officer, a critical part of the Fund’s team, helps organize and facilitate the Reforming States Group… More
Blog Post
January 2018 Christopher F. Koller,
“Don’t steal. The government hates competition.” —Bumper sticker. While grousing about the burden of taxes and shoddy government services like… More
January 2018
State leaders from the Louisiana Department of Health traveled to Tallahassee to hear from officials about Florida’s statewide Medicaid managed… More
December 2017
One hundred and twelve health policymakers from 40 states, two local jurisdictions, and three other countries gathered this fall in St. Louis,… More
Thomas C. Alexander began his public service career in 1986, when he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives from District One,… More
December 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
It takes two to tango. The partners must agree on the music and the steps. After spending this fall meeting with state health policy leaders from… More
September 2017
The federal government is committed to supporting state health policy innovation, but where is the common ground in an otherwise fractured political… More
Thomas J. Betlach, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state’s Medicaid system, is widely recognized as a… More
“Twenty-five years ago, when this foundation saw that the federal government was incapable of addressing the health care concerns of its… More
