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02.28.19

Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Work and Community Engagement Requirements

Under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is permitted to waive certain federal Medicaid requirements to allow a state to undertake an experimental, pilot or demonstration project that is “likely to assist in promoting the objectives of” ...




02.25.19

Telehealth: A Path to Virtual Integrated Care

How patients experience healthcare is shifting. Care that used to take place only in brick-and-mortar settings can now occur digitally.




02.21.19

Opioid Safety Toolkit for Health Plans

The United States is in the midst of the worst drug crisis in its history.




02.20.19

The Landscape of Federal and State Healthcare Buy-In Models

Across the country, policymakers, healthcare stakeholders and consumer advocates are motivated to expand affordable coverage, with the overarching goals of lowering the uninsured rate, addressing affordability and access-to-care issues (such as high premiums, deductibles and cost-sharing), and ...




02.12.19

Infographic: The California Consumer Privacy Act

Our privacy and data security group has released a new infographic covering the central elements of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Check out the infographic below to learn more about this important privacy legislation as you prepare for compliance by 2020. Stay up to date with all our ...




02.06.19

Potential Enrollment Impacts of Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement

To date, Section 1115 waivers that condition Medicaid eligibility on beneficiaries’ meeting work and community engagement (CE) requirements have been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for eight states: Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, ...




02.01.19

Alabama Medicaid Expansion: Summary of Estimated Costs and Savings

Alabama is currently one of only 14 states that have not expanded Medicaid, leaving more than $1 billion in federal money on the table each year that would boost economic activity and strengthen the ability of hospitals and other healthcare providers to serve residents throughout the state, and ...




01.31.19

Quantitative Evaluation of a Targeted Medicaid Buy-In for New Mexico

New Mexico, similar to a number of other states, is exploring a Medicaid buy-in product as part of a broader strategy to expand coverage and affordability of health insurance for residents. Medicaid buy-ins allow people above current Medicaid eligibility levels to pay a premium to receive ...




01.31.19

Ready for Reform: Behavioral Healthcare in Massachusetts

Massachusetts has long been a national leader in state-level healthcare reform.




01.16.19

Spotlight on Colorado: Ending the Opioid Epidemic

Colorado has addressed the opioid epidemic with an array of public and private initiatives. Yet Colorado’s death rate has stayed consistent with national trends, despite a statewide comprehensive opioid strategy and successful efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions.