Kosali Simon shares research on the relationship between Medicaid, mental health care and incarceration.
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Rethinking Telehealth’s Role in Treating Addiction
COVID opened the door to treating addiction remotely. Now policymakers have to decide whether to keep telehealth around.
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Let’s Make a Deal…on Drug Prices
Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?
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Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?
Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. Did it work?
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The Costly, Confusing Medicare Choices Facing 62 Million Americans
It’s Medicare open enrollment time, but shopping for a new plan is much harder and riskier than it seems.
Posted inHealth Law
Can Democrats Reconcile Their Health Policy Differences?
Democratic lawmakers face tough health care compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill.
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How Medicaid Home Care Helps Caregivers Too
Atheendar Venkataramani writes about a pair of studies showing how investment in Medicaid home and community based services benefits caregivers.
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Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s biggest employers.
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Docs Don’t Want to Fight With Medicaid to Get Paid
Hannah Neprash on new research showing the impact of insurance claim denials on doctors’ willingness to see Medicaid patients.
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America’s Medical Debt Problem
Engy Ziedan breaks down new research on the high levels of medical debt in the U.S. and the relationship between debt and Medicaid expansion.