We explore the country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant people may have.
Medicaid
Posted inInsurance
When a Medicaid Card Isn’t Enough
Paul Shafer writes about new research on how many doctors listed in Medicaid networks actually treat Medicaid patients.
Posted inInsurance
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.
Posted inInsurance
How Requiring Insurers to Cover Autism Care Can Impact Schools
Jose Manuel Fernandez shares research on the impact on test scores and special education when Michigan required private coverage of autism spectrum disorder therapies.
Posted inInsurance
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.
Posted inPublic Health
How Safety Net Programs Work Together to Improve Health
Joe Benitez shares research about how food, income and health care safety net programs overlap to support low-income families.
Posted inArticles
When Racial and Rural Disparities Collide
Katie Keith shares a new study looking at the distance to hospitals for zip codes with high percentages of people of color.
Posted inCost of Care
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.
Posted inInsurance
Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Health Care
The head of California’s Obamacare exchange reflects on a decade of running one of the most successful parts of the ACA.
Posted inHealth Equity
Racial Bias Lurking in Patient Records
Ishani Ganguli on new research showing Black patients have much higher odds of having clinicians write negative descriptors about them.