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Emerging Approaches in Oral Health Care Considerations for Minimally Invasive Care in Medicaid
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Cleveland Clinic Paramedic Telehealth Program: Incorporating In-Home Acute Care to Meet the Needs of Homebound Older Adults
Home-based primary care (HBPC) programs support homebound older adults and people with disabilities to receive high-quality care at home. HBPC patients with urgent care needs, however, often require additional supports related to transportation, observation, and transi... more
July 2021
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Leveraging the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase
The increase in Medicaid primary care rates mandated under health care reform offers a potentially powerful tool that states can use to bolster the delivery system and enhance access to and quality of primary care. Increased reimbursement also presents states with criti... more
August 2011
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Policy Opportunities to Support Home-Based Care
Two million older adults in the U.S. rarely or never leave their homes and even more individuals face difficulty or need assistance to do so. This population faces significant disparities in health outcomes, such as having worse self-reported health and being at greate... more
May 2022
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Support and Services at Home (SASH): Helping Older Adults and People with Disabilities in Affordable Housing Age in Place
Older adults and people with disabilities in the U.S. often have to leave their home and move into a long-term care facility even though they would prefer to age in place. That’s because they may suffer from multiple chronic medical conditions and/or face difficulty ... more
July 2022
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Leveraging State-Alliance Partnerships in State Innovation Model Efforts
With the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently announcing Round Two of the State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative, the participating awardees will engage a wide set of partners to support their ambitious goals for statewide multi-payer delivery... more
March 2015
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Medicaid Primary Care Population-Based Payment Learning Collaborative
Primary care is the backbone of a high-functioning health care system and payment reform is a foundational building block for supporting high-quality, equitable primary care delivery. Over the past decade, Medicaid agencies have made significant progress in adopting v... more
October 2022
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Harnessing Payment to Advance Health Equity: How Medicaid Agencies Can Incorporate LAN Guidance into Payment Strategies
State Medicaid agencies are beginning to use policy levers to address well-documented, widespread disparities in health care and outcomes and address long-entrenched health inequities linked to factors such as race, ethnicity, disability status, geography, sexual orien... more
February 2022
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Promoting Addiction Treatment in Medicaid: A Q&A with New Jersey’s Department of Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson
In 2018, over 3,000 New Jersey residents are believed to have died from drug overdose, and suicides among 10- to 18-year-olds in the state have increased by nearly 50 percent over the past decade. With Medicaid covering four in 10 nonelderly adults with opioid use dis... more
April 2019
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It’s Not Just Risk: Why the Shift to Value-Based Payment is also about Provider Flexibility
The movement to adopt value-based payment (VBP) in the U.S. health care system tends to focus on getting providers to assume financial risk. Recently, for example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its plans to facilitate the transition to... more
March 2019
