The journal Health Affairs has dedicated its July 2015 edition to “Medicaid’s Evolving Delivery Systems.”
The edition includes the following articles about different aspects of Medicaid:
- “Medicaid’s Growing Role in Care Delivery”
- Once a Welfare Add-On, Medicaid Takes Charge in Reinventing Care”
- “Medicaid at 50: Remarkable Growth Fueled by Unexpected Politics”
- “Medicaid Moving Forward”
- “Community Health Centers and Medicaid at 50: An Enduring Relationship Essential for Health System Transformation”
- “Many Medicaid Beneficiaries Receive Care Consistent With Attributes of Patient-Centered Medical Homes”
- “MetroHealth Care Plus: Effects of a Prepared Safety Net on Quality of Care in a Medicaid Expansion Population”
- “Lessons From Medicaid’s Divergent Paths on Mental Health and Addiction Services”
- “The Supreme Court Ruling That Blocked Providers From Seeking Higher Medicaid Payments Also Undercut the Entire Program”
- “An Examination of Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Initiatives Under Way in Six States”
- “Early Medicaid Expansion in Connecticut Stemmed the Growth in Hospital Uncompensated Care”
- “Reducing Medicaid Churning: Extending Eligibility for Twelve Months or to End of Calendar Year is Most Effective”
Medicaid is, of course, among Pennsylvania safety-net hospitals’ most important payers.
Find the July edition of Health Affairs here.