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Insights and Impact
Tracking Minnesotans' Access and Use of Home and Community-based Health Services
Minnesota’s Department of Human Services wanted to leverage existing state data to develop measures to help monitor access to Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS). To build on our prior work evaluating critical access to the state’s…
Evaluating Maternal Opioid Misuse Initiative
The prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) among pregnant women and the incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) due to in-utero exposure to opioids have soared over the past two decades. The prevalence of NOWS among infants enrolled in…
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Evaluating the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program
Medicaid provides critical assistance that enables people with limited resources and incomes to access acute and preventive medical care and long-term services and support. Innovations that simultaneously improve care for beneficiaries and promote…
MA DSRIP TA: Massachusetts Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Technical Assistance Program
Under a federal waiver program (DSRIP), Massachusetts has the opportunity to restructure MassHealth to improve health outcomes and experience for its members. The challenge is to build the capacity of the state’s newly formed Medicaid ACOs and related…
Issue Brief: Using Telehealth to Serve Medicaid Beneficiaries with Complex Health Needs
In this COVID-19 issue brief, the authors discuss how telehealth can increase access to quality health care for Medicaid beneficiaries. While some regulations have been eased to help facilitate the adoption of telehealth technology, barriers remain. This brief presents several recommendations that agencies and state Medicaid offices can consider to improve care for individuals with complex health needs. Subscribe to our bimonthly newsletters, with information about our work, staff, and current job openings, and other periodic mailings.