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December 2024 Adriana Cadena,
State Medicaid agencies may soon face significant state and federal budget cuts and policy changes. As the policy and fiscal environment changes, the… More
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November 2024 Annie Cloke, Margarita Hart, Janée Tyus, Dawn Alley, Shreya Kangovi,
Community health workers, promotores, and community health representatives have historically relied on a patchwork of grants for funding, but more than half of state Medicaid programs have now implemented some form of CHW/P/CHR coverage and payment policy. This toolkit provides model language for state Medicaid leaders and CHW/P/CHR advocates to use as they develop State Plan Amendments and accompanying guidance documents to establish coverage and payment for CHW/P/CHR services. More
October 2024 Michael Wolfe, Zack Wortman,
Some payers are pursuing strategies beyond traditional health care systems by focusing on public benefit programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). However, there is an intuitive but underutilized partner for payers seeking to increase SNAP and WIC uptake among their members: grocery stores. More
October 2024 Sofia Espinosa, Mary Louise Gilburg,
In this briefing, authors of the Commonwealth Fund’s Women’s Health Scorecard provided key findings and state policymakers from Arkansas, Mississippi and New Jersey offered discussed state strategies to increase reproductive health care access and improve maternal health outcomes. More
September 2024 Aditya Mahalingam-Dhingra, Vikki Wachino, Kim Prendergast,
The authors offer guidelines on designing successful value-based payment contracts for FQHCs and recommend action steps for CMS, state Medicaid agencies, and FQHCs that will enable more of these safety-net providers to participate in value-based care — and realize savings as well as improved quality for patients. More
August 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
“Chris, if you have a hammer, everything looks like nail.” So said the general surgeon in the HMO where I was working 30 years ago, as… More
August 2024 Claire O'Brien, Laura Barrie Smith, Timothy A. Waidmann, Genevieve M. Kenney,
Hospitalizations are stressful and costly health events, but they can often be prevented if patients have access to timely, high-quality outpatient… More
February 2024 Alexandra Duncan, Vikki Wachino, Greg Williams, Ashley DeGarmo,
Substance use–related deaths among individuals in jail and prison have increased over time and people recently released from incarceration are at… More
December 2023 Alexandra Duncan, Maria Schiff, Vikki Wachino, John O'Brien,
Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and some state Medicaid authorities are proposing or are in the process of… More
October 2023 Alexandra Duncan, Maria Schiff, Vikki Wachino, Daniel Teixeira da Silva,
As state and federal policymakers debate whether and how to change Medicaid’s role in covering services in state and county prisons and jails, a new report has recommended a set of services and standards for opioid use disorder care in these settings that could advance access to high-quality care and improve health outcomes. More
