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November 2024 Heidi L. Allen, Mandi Spishak-Thomas, Kristen Underhill, Chen Liu, Jamie R. Daw,
The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care results in significant and persistent financial hardship, particularly for families with lower income with commercial insurance. More
October 2024 Hector P. Rodriguez, SARAH D. EPSTEIN, Amanda L. Brewster, TIMOTHY T. BROWN, STACY CHEN, Salma Bibi,
Context: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), a large commercial health insurer, is using financial incentives to advance equity of care… More
October 2024 ELIZABETH T. CHIN, YIRAN E. LIU, C. BRANDON OGBUNU, Sanjay Basu,
Context: As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated individuals under the Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration… More
October 2024 Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Ruth S. Shim, Francis K. Amankwah, Sara Rosenbaum,
The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) has had a major… More
September 2024 Iselin Dahlen Syversen, Kevin Schulman, Aaron S. Kesselheim, William B. Feldman,
The Medicare drug negotiation framework established under the Inflation Reduction Act is far more limited than other frameworks in seven health systems explored in this study. More
September 2024 Nicole A. Stadnick, Carrie Geremia, Megan Wynecoop, Amanda I Mauri, Kera Swanson, Jonathan Purtle,
More than 200 states and local jurisdictions use earmarked taxes — revenue from sales, income, or property taxes — to fund behavioral health services. More
August 2024 James René Jolin, Barak Richman, Ateev Mehrotra, Carmel Shachar,
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in the use of telehealth in the United States,1 aided in no small part by a flurry of temporary… More
