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Digital Innovations at Community Health Centers: AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril

AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril. Dr. Andy Beck, cofounder and CEO of ...
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Improving Access to Medicare Home Health Care: Key Policy Considerations

Misaligned payment and quality incentives, Medicare Advantage practices, and workforce constraints can limit Medicare ...
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What H.R. 1’s Changes to Medicaid Payment Error Rules Mean for States

Medicaid payment error rates under H.R. 1 could rise due to work requirements and other changes that make eligibility ...
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Improving Medicare’s Home Health Benefit: Beneficiary Experiences and Priorities

While most Medicare home health experiences are positive, gaps remain in beneficiary knowledge, care coordination, and access ...
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Beyond Maternal Mortality: How Severe Morbidity Reveals Policy Gaps in Maternal Care

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...
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What Texas Can Teach Us About the Crisis in Primary Care

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...
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Sara R. Collins

Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar for the Expanding Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance programs at the Commonwealth Fund. An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s ...
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The Trump Administration’s New ACA Marketplace Rule Gives Insurance Companies Flexibility and Consumers Red Tape

The millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces for coverage saw their premiums double at the beginning of this year, after Congress cut funding for marketplace premium tax ...
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Massachusetts Health Care Reform--On Second Anniversary of Passage, What Progress Has Been Made?

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Massachusetts' passage of health care reform ...
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Making Health Care Affordable

The United States spends nearly double what many other high-income countries spend on health care. Even so, health outcomes for Americans are often worse, and evidence of waste and inefficiency ...
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Medicaid Pay-for-Performance: Ongoing Challenges, New Opportunities

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Summary: With pay-for-performance (P4P) programs ...
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The Health Reform Calculator: Estimating Changes in Coverage and Costs

A new report from the Urban Institute and the Commonwealth Fund, Comparing Health Insurance Reform Options: From "Building on the ACA" to Single Payer, estimates the impact of eight health care reform ...