Eldercare Voices: Championing Oral Health for Older Adults
Deborah Jacobi, RDH, MA Dr. Sarah Crane is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine and practices in Rochester, Minnesota. She, along with a mentor, Dr. Linda A. Ward, are also oral health champions. Dr. Crane shared with me...
What Consumer Advocates Need to Know About the New MACRA Quality Payment Program Rule
It would have been easy to miss it with the frenzied activity around the Senate health care bills these past few weeks, but on June 20, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed regulation laying out...
What's Next? Advocates Now Turn to CHIP Refunding
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) celebrated its 20th birthday. Enacted with bipartisan support, CHIP provides coverage to children and pregnant women whose families have incomes above Medicaid eligibility.
Preventable Diseases Show The Impact Of Racial Disparities
This blog is part of a series that will highlight how structural racism in the health care system negatively affects the health of individuals of color. Community Catalyst is committed to exposing and dismantling policies, practices and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative...
The Takeaway: What Happened and Why
No one who was awake in the middle of the night watching the Senate debate on ACA repeal will soon forget the rising tension as it became more and more apparent that the repeal effort was foundering – culminating in...
New Center Program: Connect Respected Health Care Experts with Consumer Advocates to Improve Care
An essential aspect of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation’s mission to improve care for vulnerable and historically underserved communities is to support consumer health leaders as they advocate for health system change. To that end, this week...
A Medicaid and Medicare Anniversary That Brings Uncertainty for Dual Eligibles
As the Senate continues to debate health care proposals that could result in significant cuts to vital public programs, we want to talk about the importance of Medicaid and Medicare to the population that crucially depends on both programs working...
A Former State Medicaid Director’s Sobering Take on the Impact of the Senate’s Proposed Medicaid Funding Cuts
As soon as tomorrow, the Senate plans to vote on its version of Affordable Care Act “repeal and replace” legislation. However, much of this bill is not actually about changing the ACA itself. Instead, it would radically alter the Medicaid...
Director's Corner: The National Academy of Medicine Points the Way to Improved Care for High-Needs Patients
Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, D.C., at the release of the Academy’s new special report, “Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health.” This...