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Past Event

Webinar: Starting a Serious Conversation About Health Care Spending: What can we Learn From the Past and From Elsewhere?

This new webinar series seeks to promote serious evidence-based discussions related to costs, value, and allocation of health care spending.

Date & Time October 18, 12:00 p.m - 1:00 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments

Publication

Review Assesses Use of ROI Evidence to Inform Policymaking on Public Health Issues

AcademyHealth examined the extent to which return on investment evidence is used to inform policymaking affecting public health and multi-sector work, and identified opportunities to advance its use.

Posted Sep 30, 2018

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health Paying for Care

Past Event

Medicaid and Personal Responsibility Webinar

As part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project Research Insights, managed by AcademyHealth, this webinar highlighted insights from specific states’ experiences with personal responsibility provisions in Medicaid and the national implications of these experiences.

Date & Time Sept. 24, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

High Drug Prices and Promising Policy Proposals: What the Evidence Says

While prescription drug costs are a complex issue with multiple reasons for high prices, several states are exploring policies to address the problem.

Posted Sep 17, 2018 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments

Publication

Value-Based Purchasing: How to Succeed in the Changing Business of Health

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this report explains how value-based purchasing changes the competitive landscape for insurance purchasers, plans, and service providers.

Posted Jul 17, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health

Publication

Value-Based Purchasing: Experiences of a Service Provider

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this brief outlines the lessons learned by one social service provider in exploring a value-based contract with a managed care insurance plan.

Posted Jul 17, 2018

Topics Delivering Better Care Paying for Care Public & Population Health

Publication

Value-Based Purchasing: Making Good Health Good Business

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this report explains how changing the we pay for health and health care, can incentivize the health improvements and health care cost outcomes we want.

Posted Jul 17, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

Blog Post

New Research Predicts Block Granting, Per Capita Caps Would Reduce Health Centers Capacity to Serve the Underserved

Studies presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also examine linkages between Medicaid and preventable hospitalization and health care quality.

Posted Jun 25, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid ARM News

Publication

Innovative Medicaid Payment Strategies for Upstream Prevention and Population Health: An Executive Summary

AcademyHealth collaborated with Nemours Children’s Health System to help state Medicaid programs test approaches to financing upstream prevention and addressing social determinants of health. This brief highlights lessons learned and synthesizes important takeaways from that work.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Publication

Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream

Highlighting work in Maryland, this brief outlines how a state Medicaid agency can maximize existing authority to delivery nutritional counseling in Head Start settings in an effort to prevent obesity.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Building Healthy Communities Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health