As more states focus on addressing enrollee's social needs, North Carolina's Pilots project provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the implementation of 29 evidence-based services. This paper provides timely and practical findings and recommendations from the planning, capacity building, and early implementation of the program.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded four community-engaged research grants to support analyses about the design, implementation, and impact of local, state, or national policies on the affordability of high-quality, equitable care.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded five grants to support analyses that investigate the effects of recent Medicaid policy changes and those enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, and other historically marginalized communities.
This event recording discusses the implementation lessons and policy recommendations from planning, capacity-building, and early implementation of the North Carolina Health Opportunities Pilots.
This fact sheet describes key takeaways from focus groups conducted to assess the initial awareness of and access to the Healthy Opportunities Pilots services in North Carolina.
Community organizations co-lead four new studies examining affordability of care for historically marginalized communities, awarded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Research in Transforming Health and Healthcare Systems program, managed by AcademyHealth.
Stakeholders in the three study states, Illinois, Texas and Washington, identified both pros and cons to conducting programs for justice-involved populations within the framework and requirements of a Section 1115 waiver.
Black patients may be subject to systematic bias in physicians’ perceptions of their credibility, a form of testimonial injustice. This is another potential mechanism for racial disparities in healthcare quality that should be further investigated and addressed.
Using federal 1115 waivers, some state Medicaid programs are experimenting with housing supports for enrollees who are homeless or precariously housed as a way both to improve their health and reduce their medical expenditures.
It is medically, ethically, and legally imperative that measures aimed at protecting vulnerable patients are not undermined by the burdensomeness of exemption procedures, or by physicians’ political or personal views.
