Incarceration is associated with well-documented, significant negative health impacts, both in terms of health disparities experienced by people who have been incarcerated and the systemic impacts of ...

Over the course of the past four presidential administrations, the use of Medicaid 1115 waivers to address beneficiary health-related social needs has grown. At this time, twenty-five waiver projects ...

On January 9, 2024, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally approved New York State’s 1115 waiver amendment to establish the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) Program.

On January 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved New York’s recent 1115 demonstration waiver.[1] Among other things, this most recent demonstration waiver provides ...

The blueprint set forth by Massachusetts accountable care organizations to improve population health metrics and reduce costs can be applied to New York, after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

There are 26 states waiting for their section 1115 Medicaid waivers to gain approval, according to Medicaid.gov. Under the Social Security Act, section 1115 waivers allow states to test healthcare ...

As discussions around the high cost of health care and health care reform continue to dominate our policy landscape, the recent extension of Illinois' previously approved 1115 Medicaid waiver ...

As a safety-net hospital, Medical Center Health System is tasked with covering the cost of indigent and uncompensated care. Unable to cover that cost with property and sales tax dollars alone, MCHS ...

A 49-study meta-analysis showed that the mean number of discontinuation symptoms 1 week after stopping an antidepressant was below the cutoff for clinically important discontinuation syndrome. (JAMA ...