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Controlling Health Care Costs

Private Equity’s Role in Health Care

Explainer / Nov 17, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

Creating a New Model to Measure the Need for Long-Term Services and Supports Among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities

Blog / Jul 10, 2023

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Advancing Health Equity

What Support for Women and Families Really Looks Like

Podcast / Jul 07, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

Scorecard / Jun 22, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

Learning from the U.K.’s Mistakes in Risk Adjustment in Primary Care

Blog / Jun 13, 2023

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Advancing Health Equity

How Expanding the Role of Midwives in U.S. Health Care Could Help Address the Maternal Health Crisis

Issue Briefs / May 05, 2023

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Advancing Health Equity

Fighting NYC’s Ongoing Public Health Crisis — Racism

Podcast / Apr 28, 2023

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Advancing Health Equity

Understanding Obesity as a Disease

Podcast / Apr 21, 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

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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Improving Health Care Quality

Health Care’s Increasing Focus on the Drivers of Health

Podcast / Nov 18, 2022

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Improving Health Care Quality

Making the Business Case for Social Needs Interventions — An Update

Blog / Sep 30, 2022

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