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Controlling Health Care Costs

State Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs: Implementation Guides

Publication / Jan 12, 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

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

Abigail Previlon, 13, takes part in remote distance learning at home on Oct. 28, 2020, in Stamford, Conn.

Improving Health Care Quality

Expanding Collaborative Care in Medicaid Can Combat the Country’s Youth Mental Health Crisis

Blog / Nov 28, 2022

The rising sun creeps across the US Supreme Court on November 8, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Achieving Universal Coverage

Supreme Court Seems Likely to Preserve Judicial Protection for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Blog / Nov 18, 2022

Cerri McKeon holds her two-month-old daughter at the Min No Aya Win clinic on the Fond du Lac reservation in Cloquet, Minn., on May 6, 2020.

Improving Health Care Quality

Which Key Health Care Issues Warrant Strong Consideration by Congress in a Year-End Spending Package?

Blog / Nov 17, 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

Achieving Universal Coverage

Congress Can Give States the Option to Keep Adults Covered in Medicaid

Blog / Nov 14, 2022

Maureen Dixon displays her pills organizer that she uses to keep track of the prescription drugs, vitamins, insulin and arthritis injections she takes at her home in Medford, MA on Jan. 9, 2020.

Controlling Health Care Costs

Making Prescription Drugs Affordable: Options for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Blog / Nov 10, 2022

Third graders line up in Erin Criss's classroom at Forestdale Elementary School in Springfield, VA on August 22, 2022.

Improving Health Care Quality

Using New Federal Funding to Meet Children’s Behavioral Health Needs in School

Blog / Nov 08, 2022

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