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Blog Post
February 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
From 1997 to 2005, I ran Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (NHPRI), the state’s largest Medicaid managed care organization. We worked hard to… More
News Article
September 2016
The Center for Evidence-based Policy (CEbP) is making progress on SMART-D, the State Medicaid Alternative Reimbursement and Purchasing Test for… More
Publication
August 2016 Christian Heiss, Stephen A. Somers, Mark Larson,
State policymakers continue to look for ways to improve responses for people with behavioral health and substance abuse conditions. The challenges to… More
September 2015 Andy Allison,
Developing effective Medicaid leadership and organizational structures is one of the paramount challenges facing governors and legislatures. Medicaid… More
March 2015 Maia Crawford, Tricia McGinnis, John Auerbach, Kristin Golden,
There is growing recognition among state policymakers that improving health outcomes is as much about addressing the social determinants of poor… More
July 2014 Mark Gibson,
In debates over Medicaid expansion, several recent studies are often cited as evidence regarding Medicaid’s effectiveness and inability to improve… More
May 2000
Forward This report distills the experience of senior officials of state and local government in adapting the techniques of managed care to the… More
