Improving Systems
by Jesse Cross-Call, originally posted on cbpp.org An updated policy for how the federal government helps finance the costs of Medicaid services for American Indians and Alaska Natives will improve the delivery of care and save states money. Medicaid plays a critical role in providing health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives; a quarter […]
Policymakers in many states have turned more and more to private managed care insurers to manage their Medicaid programs. More than half of people on Medicaid across the country are in some sort of “risk-based managed care organizations (MCOs)” and 39 states – according to comprehensive research by the Kaiser Family Foundation – use such […]
While we all breathed a collective sigh of relief when CMS did not release the Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care proposed rules prior to the Memorial Day weekend, we have our work cut out for us the next few weeks (months) as CMS released 653 pages of proposed rules late yesterday. Organizations have until July 27th […]
By Naomi Stark, Georgetown CCF Research Assistant The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently published a report on Emergency Room (ER) use among children in the U.S. using data gathered from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Authors explored the relationship of child coverage type (Private, Medicaid and Uninsured) to the frequency […]
By Keanan Lane, CCF Research Intern & McCourt School of Public Policy Graduate Student The recently released findings from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment have renewed focus on Medicaid coverage and emergency department (ED) utilization. The results showed an overall increase in ED visits, driven primarily by those classified as “non-emergent,” “primary care treatable,” and […]
By Tara Mancini See CCF’s latest fact sheet on Medicaid Access Earlier this week, my colleague, Joan Alker, blogged about how Medicaid provides access to needed care. As she mentioned, the decision to extend Medicaid coverage to millions of the uninsured has often been met with skepticism over whether the health care system has the […]
