Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

States Work to both Adopt and Suspend Medicaid Waiver Demonstrations

Substance Use Disorder continues to be a focus of waiver activity in the states as research provides insights on what’s working and what’s not in Medicaid innovation. Meanwhile, work requirement policies are being both suspended and increased across various states.

Posted Feb 4, 2020 By Sofia Toso

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care

Blog Post

States Experiment with Cross State Comparison to Evaluate Medicaid Waivers for Substance Use Disorder Services

Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia employed several innovative evaluation strategies to conduct cross-state comparisons for insights around both the impact and implementation of 1115 waivers.

Posted Jan 30, 2020 By Peter Cunningham, PhD, Cynthia Woodcock, M.B.A., Nathan Pauly, Ph.D.

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care

Publication

Research Provides Critically Needed Evidence on Medicare Accountable Care Organizations

AcademyHealth awarded one of its 2019 Health Services Research (HSR) Impact Award to a body of work that extends far beyond standard evaluation to provide empirical guidance on many issues from risk adjustment to unintended impacts to importance of participation.

Posted Jan 21, 2020

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Publication

Despite Stable Individual Health Insurance Markets, Accessibility and Affordability Challenges Remain

Summarizing expert discussion at a September 2019 meeting, this brief highlights the current state-of-the-research on the individual health insurance market, such as trends in market stability and what policies are working to make individual coverage more accessible and affordable.

Posted Jan 16, 2020

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

States Identify Top Medicaid Policy Areas for Future Multi-state Data Analysis

Results from an AcademyHealth investigation highlight four shared Medicaid policy priorities across 22 states: substance use disorder, behavioral health integration, maternal mortality, and social determinants of health.

Posted Jan 13, 2020 By Susan Kennedy, M.P.P., M.S.W., Logan Sheets

Topics Using Health Data Data Sharing Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

Cross-state Medicaid Data Provides New Insights into the Opioid Epidemic

The University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Kaiser Family Foundation leveraged the AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network to profile the epidemic in six states along several measures not available in public data.

Posted Dec 23, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Past Event

Webinar: Stabilizing Individual Health Insurance Markets

As part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project Research Insights, managed by AcademyHealth, this webinar identified the effects of a range of federal and state levers intended to strengthen the individual health insurance market’s infrastructure.

Date & Time December 17, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

As Opioid Crisis Continues, New Report Points to State Options for Medicaid Coverage of Inpatient Behavioral Health Services

Recent AcademyHealth webinar presenter MaryBeth Musumeci and colleague Priya Chidambaram highlight findings from a recent Kaiser Family Foundation report on patterns of Medicaid enrollee use of substance use disorder services and state waiver activity aimed at expanding services.

Posted Dec 2, 2019 By Marybeth Musumeci, J.D, Priya Chidambaram

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

States Leverage Medicaid Waivers to Combat Health Challenges, Pilot Funding Approaches and Work Requirements

AcademyHealth reviews recent developments in state Medicaid pilots designed to test innovative alterations to existing Medicaid programs through Section 1115 waivers.

Posted Oct 30, 2019 By Sofia Toso

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care

Blog Post

Evaluation of Iowa’s 1115 Waiver Highlights Importance of Communication, Instrument Testing

Recent AcademyHealth webinar presenter and behavioral scientist Natoshia Askelson reflects on the evaluation of Iowa’s Healthy Behavior Program 1115 Waiver.

Posted Sep 18, 2019 By Natoshia M. Askelson, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Topics Access to Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid