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01/30/2025

A new issue brief entitled "A Menu of State Choices for Addressing Unaffordable Growth in Hospital Commercial Prices" authored for the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs https://bit.ly/2025-0128-bailit-milbank-brief

01/15/2025

A new blog article published for Health Affairs entitled "Can Public Option Plans Improve Affordability? Insights From Colorado". Authored by Roslyn Murray and Christopher Whaley.

11/05/2024

A new publication entitled "Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care." Authored by Erin Campbell, MPH, Mary Beth Dyer, and Anna Rothenberg for State Health and Value Strategies.
https://bit.ly/2024-1031-SHVS-Addressing-HRSN

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States increasingly use Medicaid programs to enhance healthcare delivery and address health-related social needs (HRSN). This toolkit highlights various strategies states implement in their Medicaid-managed care programs to tackle HRSN. It is a valuable resource for states looking to develop managed care procurements or update contract provisions. The toolkit includes examples from 21 states and was updated in October 2024.

08/20/2024

A new article entitled "In States With Health Care Spending Targets, Spending Growth Moderated In 2022 But Still Exceeded Targets" authored by January Angeles and Jessica Mar, MPH for Health Affairs Blog

Results from the most recent cost growth target data collection in five states underscore the need for states to keep up pressure on curbing health care costs to make health care more affordable.

04/27/2022

A new blog post entitled “Ensuring Health Care Cost Growth Targets Promote Health Equity" written for the Milbank Memorial Fund

State strategies for adopting a health equity lens in the development, assessment, and reporting of cost growth targets with the aim of making the health care system both more affordable and more equitable

04/02/2022

New article entitled “A Typology For Health Equity Measures” authored for Forefront by MichaelBailit and Deepti Kanneganti https://bit.ly/2022-0321-bailit-health-equity

03/06/2022

New publication authored by Bailit Health for The Commonwealth Fund entitled “Ten Strategies to Help States Slow Health Care Cost Growth in the Commercial Market"

State policymakers can address rising costs in the commercial market with strategies on global spending, provider/drug prices, utilization, and administration.

05/26/2021

5/27 at 1:30pm EST, join Senior Consultant Beth Waldman as she presents "MedWorks: Medicaid Buy-In Across the Country" at the Work to Include 2021 Virtual Employment First Summit

10/24/2020

A new publication entitled “Social Risk Factor Screening Measure” authored by Rachel Isaacson, MPH, and Michael Bailit for State Health and Value Strategies. https://lnkd.in/errCy5V Heather Howard, Daniel Meuse

10/09/2020

A new publication for the entitled "Prospective Payment for Primary Care: Lessons for Future Models." Authored by Bailit Health team members Erin Taylor, Michael Bailit, and Jennifer Sayles.

08/12/2020

New expert perspective published for SHVS and authored by Michael Bailit and Jennifer Sayles entitled "Ensuring Medicaid MCO Enrollees Receive Necessary Care During COVID-19". https://bit.ly/2020-0720-bhp-shvs

The expert perspective outlines actions states can take to ensure their Medicaid managed care plans deliver needed services during the pandemic. Recommendations include measuring the impact of COVID-19 on Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) enrollees and assessing what steps MCOs have taken to address member needs, including those of subpopulations, during the pandemic.

Ensuring Medicaid MCO Enrollees Receive Necessary Care During COVID-19