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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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Improving Health Care Quality

Improving Access to School-Based Behavioral Health Services Through Medicaid

blog / Sep 28, 2023

Ensuring there are enough providers to support youth mental health is an important part of a coordinated approach to delivering comprehensive student wellness.

Featured Topic: Medicaid

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Improving Health Care Quality

Improving Access to School-Based Behavioral Health Services Through Medicaid

blog / Sep 28, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Almost 3.8 Million People Have Lost Their Medicaid Coverage Since the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

blog / Aug 09, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

Protecting Kids from Coverage Losses During Medicaid Redeterminations and Beyond: Five Strategies for States

blog / Jul 17, 2023

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Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.

Listen, Learn, Lead: Writing the Commonwealth Fund’s Next Chapter

Blog / Jan 19, 2023

Khloe Edwards visits her grandmother with mom Tanisha Vinson, right, who was let go from her job after taking off too many days to care for her mother after surgery. Medicare beneficiaries of color are more likely to rely on unpaid informal caregivers than are white beneficiaries. Photo: Bill O’Leary/Washington Post via Getty Images

Advancing Health Equity

Medicare Beneficiaries of Color More Likely to Rely on Unpaid Informal Caregivers for Home Health

Blog / Jan 18, 2023

Achieving Universal Coverage

New Rule Proposed to Simplify ACA Consumer Choice and Aid Enrollment

Blog / Jan 17, 2023

Advancing Health Equity

Limiting Abortion Access for American Women Impacts Health, Economic Security: An International Comparison

Blog / Jan 12, 2023

A medical worker organizes antibody tests at the Transformé Medical Center in White Plains, N.Y., on Apr. 29, 2020. The Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits requirement — designed to ensure that health plans cover a standard set of benefits — is now a decade old. Photo: Pablo Monsalve/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

HHS Considers Updating the Essential Health Benefits

Blog / Jan 11, 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

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