Every day, state Medicaid decision-makers grapple with how to responsibly spend public program dollars to best serve their members. State decision-makers can use this checklist to strategically guide financing and payment decisions to advance health equity. This checklist presents eight key questions to help state Medicaid agencies and other payers build a focus on health equity into their financing and payment strategies.

The checklist draws from a brief authored by the Center for Health Care Strategies for Advancing Health Equity, a national initiative led by the University of Chicago and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that is working with states to promote health equity through payment innovations.