We trace the origins, early results and challenges of California’s ambitious new Medicaid initiative to pay for some non-medical services like connecting people to housing.
Cost of Care
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How Hospitals Respond to Value-based Payment
Yaa Akosa Antwi shares new research on the impact of a pay-for-performance program on hospital quality.
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Streamlining Access to the Safety Net
Paul Shafer highlights newly federal rule aimed at streamlining application and renewal processes for enrolling in Medicaid and CHIP.
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The Race to Prepare for Medicare’s New Drug Pricing Powers
Congress gave Medicare historic new powers to lower drug prices, but lawsuits, loopholes and opposition from the drug industry could undermine them.
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Dems’ New Drug Pricing Deal: What You Need to Know
Stacie Dusetzina shares key takeaways from the drug pricing provisions of the new Inflation Reduction Act.
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Abortion Funds’ Growing Role Post-Roe
Independent abortion funds have been flooded with donations post-Roe. How do these funds work and what role will they play in a post-Roe world?
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Good Intentions Gone Awry
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become so controversial?
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Do Higher Hospital Prices Reflect Greater Investments in Quality?
Benedic Ippolito shares new research that examines whether hospitals with higher prices also offer higher quality care.
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Hospitals Scooping Up Physician Practices Drives Health Care Prices Up
Aditi Sen shares new research that examines whether hospital consolidation increases health care prices.
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Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.