June 1, 2023
Evidence-based Innovation Award
The Center for Evidence-based Policy is pleased to announce the first-ever Evidence-based Innovation Award! This Award recognizes a team or state official for using evidence to innovate and achieve improvements for their state’s populations. This will be an annual Award focused on state policy and awarded to a state official or state team. Please submit […]
April 13, 2023
Colorado Multi-Payer Collaborative
From 2012 through 2021, the Center facilitated and supported the work of the Colorado Multi-Payer Collaborative to advance primary care transformation. The Collaborative brought together health care payers in response to the original federal Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, and continued its commitment to transformation through its participation in CPC+ and Colorado’s State Innovation Model […]
March 24, 2023
2022 Annual Report
The Center is pleased to present its Annual Report for 2022. Click here to check it out!
February 28, 2023
Medicare Shared Savings Program Policy Brief
Under recently updated Medicare Shared Savings Program rules, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourages formation of new accountable care organizations (ACOs), particularly to serve rural and underserved beneficiaries. State Medicaid agencies may wish to align efforts (e.g., related to investments in new ACOs, reducing disparities for underserved populations, ensuring reliable cost savings across […]
November 2, 2022
Welcome David Radley, PhD, MPH
The Center is pleased to welcome David C. Radley as the Director of Data and Analytics. Dr. Radley has 18 years of experience in health policy evaluation, quality and performance measurement, and in public reporting and visualization of healthcare data. Prior to joining the Center, David served as scientific lead for the Commonwealth Fund’s Health System […]
June 27, 2022
The Colorado Multi-Payer Collaborative: A Framework for Integration of Whole-Person Care
A new resource “The Colorado Multi-Payer Collaborative: A Framework for Integration of Whole-Person Care” offers a summary of the work of the Colorado Multi-Payer Collaborative (MPC), supported by the Center for Evidence-based Policy, to develop a Framework for Integration of Whole-Person Care (adapted from the work of Thomas Bodenheimer and colleagues). The Framework was designed […]
May 4, 2022
Care Coordination Policy and Evidence: A Compendium of MED Reports, 2017–2022
The Medicaid Evidence-based Decisions Project (MED) has published a number of reports related to care coordination, including reports focused on care management, comprehensive care, and integrated care. This compendium provides state Medicaid policymakers with a high-level synthesis of these report findings published on the MED Clearinghouse from 2017–2022, with links to the original reports. The […]
March 28, 2022
Medicaid’s Role in Substance Use Disorder Services
The 2021 Medicaid Evidence-based Decisions Project Substance Use Workgroup Tool, Medicaid’s Role in Substance Use Disorder Services, provides an overview of the many ways state Medicaid programs address the substance use disorder (SUD) crisis in this country. The tool aims to show state leaders ways to leverage funding and improve efforts to address SUD by […]
February 9, 2022
STEM in the news: New website aims to help doctors talk with patients about cannabis
On January 19, 2021, the lead PI for the STEM project, Dr. Devan Kansagara, joined OPB’s Think Out Loud to discuss the STEM project. You can listen to the session or read the related article on the OPB website.