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Gloria Cote, 92, left, and Sr. Jeanne Fregeau, 93, sit on the porch at St. Chretienne Retirement Residence in Marlborough, Mass., on Aug. 26, 2020. Both recovered from COVID-19 infections earlier in the year. The pandemic has prompted increased investment in home- and community-based services to transform care settings and expand options for long-term care. Photo: Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Policy Options to Advance Long-Term Care: Resources and Tools for State Policymakers

Blog / Feb 21, 2023

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives seated and standing in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Controlling Health Care Costs

Reforming ERISA to Help States Control Health Care Costs

Issue Briefs / Feb 09, 2023

Nurses and doctors working at busy nurse station

Controlling Health Care Costs

States Take on Affordability — Hospital and Pharmaceutical Spending Are Pressing Priorities, but Difficult to Tackle

Blog / Jan 26, 2023

Denver, Colorado downtown skyline viewed from Red Rocks at dawn.

Achieving Universal Coverage

States Move Forward with Public Option Programs, but Differ in How They Select Insurance Carriers

Blog / Jan 24, 2023

Footbridge suspended over traffic intersection with signs to hospital in Sweden

Advancing Health Equity

Limiting Abortion Access for American Women Impacts Health, Economic Security: An International Comparison

Blog / Jan 12, 2023

Illustration of patients and providers holding up symbols for payment and health care

Controlling Health Care Costs

State Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs: Implementation Guides

Publication / Jan 12, 2023

A medical worker organizes antibody tests at the Transformé Medical Center in White Plains, N.Y., on Apr. 29, 2020. The Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits requirement — designed to ensure that health plans cover a standard set of benefits — is now a decade old. Photo: Pablo Monsalve/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

HHS Considers Updating the Essential Health Benefits

Blog / Jan 11, 2023

Nicole Chauncey instructs a volunteer on how to register clinic visitors at the Lowell Senior Center in Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 25, 2021. Recently approved Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations from Massachusetts, Arizona, Arkansas, and Oregon establish a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid policy framework. Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

CMS’ New Policy Framework for Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstrations

Blog / Jan 10, 2023

Dr. John Mouratoff talks with a patient on the phone from his office at the East Bay Nephrology Medical Group office in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 5, 2020. Since the start of the pandemic, at least 20 states have taken action to allow or require coverage of telephone visits — essential for reaching the 42 million Americans who lack broadband access as well as people unfamiliar with video technology. Photo: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

State Telemedicine Coverage Requirements Continue to Evolve

Blog / Dec 20, 2022

Missy Hastings checks on a resident in Baton Rouge, La., on August 17, 2021. Louisiana state Medicaid agencies are among those across the country seeking to advance racial health equity through contractual provisions in managed care agreements, such as for collecting, classifying, and reporting data by race and ethnicity. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Advancing Health Equity

Medicaid Managed Care Opportunities to Promote Health Equity in Primary Care

Blog / Dec 19, 2022

Person receiving COVID-19 vaccine injection

Improving Health Care Quality

Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths

Blog / Dec 13, 2022

Abigail Previlon, 13, takes part in remote distance learning at home on Oct. 28, 2020, in Stamford, Conn.

Improving Health Care Quality

Expanding Collaborative Care in Medicaid Can Combat the Country’s Youth Mental Health Crisis

Blog / Nov 28, 2022

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