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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

A doctor and nurses tend to a patient at University Hospital Leipzig on Nov. 18, 2021, in Leipzig, Germany. Germany spends less on health care per capita than the U.S., yet life expectancy at birth is nearly four years higher. Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes

Issue Briefs / Jan 31, 2023

Mother and infant child

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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

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CMS Approves Groundbreaking Section 1115 Demonstrations

Blog / Dec 07, 2022

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

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

Blog / Nov 28, 2022

An Indigenous Navajo senior aged woman, receiving healthcare assistance in her home.

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Designing Accountable Care: Lessons from CMS Accountable Care Organizations

Blog / Nov 10, 2022

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

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

Blog / Nov 08, 2022

Stephanie Robtoy, who suffered from addiction to prescription opioids for a decade, with her daughter in St. Albans, Vermont.

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Changing the Way Opioid Addiction Treatment Is Delivered Could Reduce Death and Suffering

Blog / Oct 24, 2022

A pediatric doctor performs an exam

Improving Health Care Quality

Paying Differently for Primary Care for Better Health and Greater Equity

Blog / Sep 12, 2022

Female physician in scrubs and mask on phone in hospital

Advancing Health Equity

Male Physicians Earn More Than Women in Primary and Specialty Care

Blog / Jul 27, 2022

Man in hospital gown and mask waits while nurses prep him for radiology appointment

Improving Health Care Quality

Are Financial Barriers Affecting the Health Care Habits of American Men?

Issue Briefs / Jul 14, 2022

Graphic of United States map with charts and graphs as well as COVID-19 viruses

Achieving Universal Coverage

2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

Scorecard / Jun 16, 2022

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