resource Promising Practices for Using Medicaid to Address the Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care Outlines how Medicaid agencies can use state plan amendments and waivers to address the health needs of child welfare...

July 2020

resource Alcohol Management Program Pilots: A Homelessness and COVID-19 Innovation Snapshot Outlines the implementation strategy of one of the first alcohol management programs in the U.S., which is helping to...

July 2020

resource California’s Project Roomkey: A Homelessness and COVID-19 Innovation Snapshot Highlights California's Project Roomkey initiative that provides protective housing for people experiencing homelessness who may need to be in...

July 2020

resource Providing Medical Respite for People Experiencing Homelessness during the COVID-19 Crisis  Medical respite care, also referred to as recuperative care, is provided to people experiencing homelessness who are not sick...

August 2020

resource Provider Relief Fund: A Lifeline to Medicaid and CHIP Providers Among the countless lessons from COVID-19, two stand out to Medicaid policy stakeholders: (1) safety net providers serving Medicaid...

July 2020

resource Nebraska: Encouraging Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing in the Outpatient Setting Highlights how Nebraska’s Medicaid and public health team shared prescribing information between the agencies to determine how to best...

July 2020

resource New Buprenorphine Guidelines May Promote More Equitable Access to Effective Opioid Treatment In April 2021, the Biden administration released revised practice guidelines for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) with buprenorphine. This...

July 2021

resource Easing the Financial Burden on Family Caregivers: Translating 1915(c) Appendix K Family caregivers — relatives, friends, or neighbors who provide informal and typically unpaid care for individuals who are older,...

July 2020

resource Telehealth in Rural America: Disruptive Innovation for the Long Term? The dramatic expansion of telehealth, and more specifically telemedicine, is allowing providers to safely serve patients at a distance...

June 2020

resource Connecting with High-Risk Patients When In-Person Visits are Not Possible Highlights OneCare Vermont's efforts to develop a care coordination tool aimed at assisting providers to identify patients who are...

June 2020

resource Addressing Health-Related Social Needs among Medicaid Beneficiaries: Mapping Cross-Sector Partnership Roles Attention to health-related social needs is particularly critical to addressing COVID-19 and reducing health disparities. Given the significant influence...

June 2020

resource How Health Centers Can Improve Patient Care Through Value-Based Payment Models Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are an essential part of the nation’s health care safety net. Across the country,...

June 2020