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State Health Policy and Medicaid

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State Health Policy and Medicaid

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Improving Health Care Quality

What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election for Medicaid

Explainer / Sep 12, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Few Georgians Are Enrolled in the State’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program

Blog / Sep 11, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees

Explainer / Apr 02, 2024

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Improving Health Care Quality

Using a New Payment Model to Integrate Primary Care into Specialty Behavioral Health Settings

Blog / Mar 15, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

What States Are Doing to Keep People Covered as Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Unwinds

Blog / Dec 06, 2023

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Advancing Health Equity

Proposed Rule Changes to Medicaid Managed Care Payments Could Improve Access and Address Disparities in Care, But Questions Remain

Blog / Aug 03, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

The Untapped Potential of Medicaid to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Blog / Jul 19, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

Informing Medicaid Policy Through Better, More Usable Claims Data

Blog / Jun 21, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Rights

Blog / Jun 15, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Medicaid Work Requirements Wouldn’t Increase Employment and Could Imperil Future Labor Market Participation

Blog / May 24, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Congress’s Repeated Attempts to Create Work Requirements in Medicaid

Blog / Apr 27, 2023

Students enjoy the game room at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2023. California is investing more than $4 billion to revamp its approach to youth mental health, ensuring that services are community-based, equitable, and inclusive of many different types of providers. Photo: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Strengthening Home- and Community-Based Services to Stabilize Young People with Behavioral Health Problems and Keep Them Out of Hospitals

Blog / Mar 08, 2023

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