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On our To the Point blog, Fund experts and grantees provide quick takes on the latest health care policy and practice news.

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Achieving Universal Coverage

The Far-Reaching Implications of the Georgia Medicaid Work Experiment

blog / Feb 02, 2023

A court ruled Georgia can proceed with a Medicaid expansion demonstration that excludes hundreds of thousands of low-income adults by subverting ACA rules.

Featured Topic: COVID-19

A person receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles on April 9, 2021. Findings from a new study highlight the substantial impact of the U.S. vaccination program on reducing infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths

blog / Dec 13, 2022

A health worker prepares to administer a dose of Pfizer covid-19 vaccine to a girl at the Sanford Civic Center.

Improving Health Care Quality

How a COVID Booster Campaign Could Keep Kids Out of the Hospital and in School

blog / Nov 15, 2022

Registered Nurse Mariam Salaam administers the Pfizer booster shot at a Covid vaccination and testing site in Los Angeles on May 5, 2022. A fall booster vaccination campaign could drastically reduce Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations this winter.

Improving Health Care Quality

A Fall COVID-19 Booster Campaign Could Save Thousands of Lives, Billions of Dollars

blog / Oct 05, 2022

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Achieving Universal Coverage

The Far-Reaching Implications of the Georgia Medicaid Work Experiment

Blog / Feb 02, 2023

People wait to receive food at La Colaborativa Food Pantry in Chelsea, Mass., on Nov. 23, 2021. To account for social risks, the Massachusetts Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program, launched in 2017, adjusts Medicaid payments based on 27 patient characteristics and the Neighborhood Stress Score, a small-area deprivation index. Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments

Blog / Feb 01, 2023

Nicole Chauncey instructs a volunteer on how to register clinic visitors at the Lowell Senior Center in Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 25, 2021. Recently approved Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations from Massachusetts, Arizona, Arkansas, and Oregon establish a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid policy framework. Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

CMS’ New Policy Framework for Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstrations

Blog / Jan 10, 2023

Gina Flores helps Theresa Bedford sign up for a free mammogram during a health fair at Babylon Town Hall in Lindenhurst, N.Y., on Oct. 4, 2022. The Affordable Care Act’s preventive care, no cost-sharing provision is in jeopardy after parts of it were invalidated by a Texas federal court judge. Photo: John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Millions Could Lose Access to Free Preventive Care Services

Blog / Jan 05, 2023

Improving Health Care Quality

Which Parts of the United States Have the Most Consolidated Medicare Hospital Spending?

Blog / Jan 04, 2023

Improving Health Care Quality

How Can CMS Improve the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule?

Blog / Dec 21, 2022

Dr. John Mouratoff talks with a patient on the phone from his office at the East Bay Nephrology Medical Group office in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 5, 2020. Since the start of the pandemic, at least 20 states have taken action to allow or require coverage of telephone visits — essential for reaching the 42 million Americans who lack broadband access as well as people unfamiliar with video technology. Photo: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

State Telemedicine Coverage Requirements Continue to Evolve

Blog / Dec 20, 2022

Missy Hastings checks on a resident in Baton Rouge, La., on August 17, 2021. Louisiana state Medicaid agencies are among those across the country seeking to advance racial health equity through contractual provisions in managed care agreements, such as for collecting, classifying, and reporting data by race and ethnicity. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Advancing Health Equity

Medicaid Managed Care Opportunities to Promote Health Equity in Primary Care

Blog / Dec 19, 2022

A person receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles on April 9, 2021. Findings from a new study highlight the substantial impact of the U.S. vaccination program on reducing infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths

Blog / Dec 13, 2022

A mother and daughter with at-home COVID-19 test kits in Chelsea, Mass., on Dec. 17, 2021. Now that the so-called family glitch has been fixed, Affordable Care Act marketplaces will need to implement new infrastructure and conduct significant outreach to consumers newly eligible for coverage. Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

Implementing the Family Glitch Fix on the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces

Blog / Dec 08, 2022

Mother and infant child

Improving Health Care Quality

Improving Maternal Health by Extending Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Blog / Dec 07, 2022

Volunteers deliver boxes of foods to families on May 8, 2020 in Foxborough, Mass. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services recently approved section 1115 demonstrations in Massachusetts in three other states that include innovative funding for addressing social drivers of health, such as nutrition-related services. Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

CMS Approves Groundbreaking Section 1115 Demonstrations

Blog / Dec 07, 2022

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