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06.27.24

Food for Thought: Expanded Opportunities for Nutrition as Medicine

A recent study published in JAMA estimated that more than six million people in the U.S. have diet-sensitive conditions and activity limitations that could benefit from medically tailored meals, a type of Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition (MSF&N) service.


01.04.23

What Health Plans Should Know About Federal Changes for Dual Eligibles

Designed to better coordinate care between Medicare and Medicaid programs, a D-SNP enrolls only dual-eligible individuals.


01.25.22

New York State SFY23 Executive Budget Health Focus Highlights

On January 18, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul released her budget proposal for State Fiscal Year 2023.


03.25.19

New Medicaid Briefing Series: Priority Issues for State Lawmakers

Where  the agency and its leadership sit within state government can enable or impede the Medicaid director’s authority to make critical decisions about strategy, services and budget.


12.19.18

Now on Demand: “Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Advance Value-Based Purchasing”

As healthcare costs continue to rise and stakeholders maintain focus on improving care quality and outcomes, payers are turning to value-based payment (VBP) as a critical tool for boosting delivery system performance.


11.26.18

New Webinar: Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Advance Value-Based Purchasing

As healthcare costs continue to rise and stakeholders maintain focus on improving care quality and outcomes, payers are turning to value-based payment (VBP) as a critical tool for boosting delivery system performance.


05.02.18

Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Advance Value-Based Payment

As healthcare costs continue to rise and stakeholders maintain focus on improving quality of care and outcomes, payors for healthcare services are turning to value-based payment (VBP) as one tool to inject greater value into the delivery of care.


06.02.16

Manatt on Medicaid: Leveraging MMC Contracts to Advance Reforms

In the final Medicaid managed care (MMC) rule published on April 25, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) clarifies states’ flexibility to use their contracts with plans for the purpose of advancing federal and state efforts to improve access, quality and efficiency in ...


06.22.15

Examining Fee Splitting Statutes in the Context of Value-Based Healthcare

Fee splitting prohibitions are aimed primarily at situations where a healthcare professional, in order to generate patient referrals from other licensed or unlicensed persons, splits part of the professional fee earned from treating the referred patient with the source of the referral.


05.20.15

Building a Culture of Health: The Value Proposition of Retail Clinics

Retail clinics offer convenient, low-cost basic primary care treatment, screening and diagnostic services in a variety of settings. Increasingly, these clinics are an integral part of a U.S. healthcare system in the throes of massive change as payers and providers migrate toward the Triple Aim ...