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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

The rising sun creeps across the US Supreme Court on November 8, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Achieving Universal Coverage

Supreme Court Seems Likely to Preserve Judicial Protection for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Blog / Nov 18, 2022

Cerri McKeon holds her two-month-old daughter at the Min No Aya Win clinic on the Fond du Lac reservation in Cloquet, Minn., on May 6, 2020.

Improving Health Care Quality

Which Key Health Care Issues Warrant Strong Consideration by Congress in a Year-End Spending Package?

Blog / Nov 17, 2022

A health worker prepares to administer a dose of Pfizer covid-19 vaccine to a girl at the Sanford Civic Center.

Improving Health Care Quality

How a COVID Booster Campaign Could Keep Kids Out of the Hospital and in School

Blog / Nov 15, 2022

Achieving Universal Coverage

Congress Can Give States the Option to Keep Adults Covered in Medicaid

Blog / Nov 14, 2022

Maureen Dixon displays her pills organizer that she uses to keep track of the prescription drugs, vitamins, insulin and arthritis injections she takes at her home in Medford, MA on Jan. 9, 2020.

Controlling Health Care Costs

Making Prescription Drugs Affordable: Options for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Blog / Nov 10, 2022

Third graders line up in Erin Criss's classroom at Forestdale Elementary School in Springfield, VA on August 22, 2022.

Improving Health Care Quality

Using New Federal Funding to Meet Children’s Behavioral Health Needs in School

Blog / Nov 08, 2022

Man jogging towards the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.

Achieving Universal Coverage

Congressional Proposals for a Federal Public Health Insurance Option

Blog / Nov 03, 2022

People are administered rapid COVID-19 tests amongst the agricultural community on February 17, 2021 in Immokalee, Florida.

Achieving Universal Coverage

The Unfinished Business of Extending Health Care Coverage to All Low-Income Americans

Blog / Oct 31, 2022

Repeated pills on the blue background

Controlling Health Care Costs

How Should Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices? A Summary of the Options

Explainer / Oct 27, 2022

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