Poor, sick Americans are stuck in a Medicare-Medicaid maze. Is a fix in sight?
Low-Income Health Care
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Promising Primary Care Program Cuts Unnecessary ER Visits
A randomized study finds that easing undocumented immigrants’ access to primary care cuts their use of the emergency room.
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Putting a Price Tag on Patients’ Social Needs
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine calculates the cost of fully meeting the social needs of primary care patients – and finds the current system falls short.
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Alleviating the Financial Burden of Poverty with Medicaid
Joseph Benitez shares new research that shows Medicaid recipients may benefit beyond increased access to care.
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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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The Challenge of Improving Birth Outcomes for Low-Income Women
Jose Fernandez shares new research that explores whether longer and more frequent prenatal nurse visits effect adverse birth outcomes.
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Digging Into the Growth in 340B Contract Pharmacies
Paula Chatterjee shares new research on the whether a popular discount drug program is reaching the patients it was designed to support.
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Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
Medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people — is on the rise.
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High-Price Drugs Out of Reach for Many on Medicare
Bianca Frogner breaks down new research on the impact subsidies can have for people on Medicare trying to access lifesaving drugs.
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A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.