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This Award recognizes a team or State official for using evidence to innovate and achieve improvements for their State populations.

We believe all states need access to high-quality evidence from reliable sources now more than ever, so we created the Evidence Synthesis Series to share information from recent research reports. We hope you will join us!  If you want to hear more about this, please subscribe to receive more information.   Webinar 1: The Role […]

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The MED DME Workgroup Tool: Medicaid Coverage of Enclosed Beds examines the use of enclosed beds—specialized safety devices designed to prevent injury for children with conditions like autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or developmental disabilities. It highlights the rising use of enclosed beds—specialized safety devices for children with conditions like autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or developmental […]

The MED Policy Brief: Enhancing Global Billing Practices for Medicaid Pregnancy Services examines the use of global obstetric billing in 37 state Medicaid programs, a bundled payment model covering prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care. It identifies practical challenges, such as inadequate compensation for complex pregnancies, limited data transparency due to bundled coding, and care fragmentation […]

The Center for Evidence-based Policy is excited to announce the release of the second set of briefs from its Medicaid Evidence and Review of Cost Initiative (MERCI) project. Focused on drugs approved through the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway, each MERCI drug brief is a case study which includes the clinical trial evidence used for FDA […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule establishes new prior authorization requirements that apply broadly to “items and services” other than drugs. State Medicaid and CHIP programs and managed care plans must meet prior authorization policy requirements by 2026 and must implement new application programming interface (API) technologies […]

Susan Stuard from the Center recently authored a new blog on the Medicaid Evidence and Review of Cost Initiative (MERCI) project for the Milbank Memorial Fund.  The article highlights issues with the FDA’s accelerated drug approval process affecting Medicaid coverage. Medicaid must cover all FDA-approved drugs, even with limited trial data, increasing risks for patients. […]

With support from the Center for Evidence-based Policy, eight Washington health plans and the state’s Health Care Authority (HCA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), committing to multi-payer primary care transformation. The MOU outlines individual and collective payer efforts to support the state’s Primary Care Transformation Initiative (PCTI). Under the initiative, health plans will align their plan […]

A new Commonwealth Fund scorecard comparing state health system performance on women’s health and reproductive care reveals big differences across the U.S., with particularly wide gaps on measures of mortality among reproductive-age women and access to essential health services. The 2024 State Scorecard on Women’s Health and Reproductive Care was completed with analytic support from researchers […]