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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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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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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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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 ...
The Commonwealth FundOpinion

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 ...
The Commonwealth FundOpinion

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 ...
Commonwealth Fund

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 ...
Commonwealth Fund

Can Rural Health Be Transformed Through a New Federal Program?

H.R. 1 made deep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but also established the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), which will provide $50 billion over five years ...
Commonwealth Fund

How Policies to Expand Insurance Coverage Affect Household Health Care Spending

In Exhibit 2, we measure spending as a percentage of household income rather than dollars (see Appendix 2 for further discussion of this metric). People in the highest quintile of spending as a ...
Commonwealth Fund

Biting Into Medicaid: What Happens When States Cut and Expand Medicaid Dental Benefits?

Adult dental coverage may once again be the focus of cost-cutting proposals as state legislatures debate strategies to balance budgets following the passage of the federal tax and spending law, H.R. 1 ...
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Positive Outliers: How Some Rural Communities Maintain Access to Labor and Delivery Services

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...