Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs: A Quality Improvement Toolkit
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Medicaid Payment and Delivery System Reform: Early Insights from 10 Medicaid Expansion States.
Issue Expanded Medicaid enrollment under the Affordable Care Act has heightened the importance of states’ roles as principal purchasers of health care for low-income and medically vulnerable populations. Concurrently, the federal government has augmented states’ purchasing tools. Goal To examine the evolution of payment and delivery system reform in 10 ACA Medicaid expansion states. Methods...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009