Colorado Medicaid focuses on community experiences to improve maternal health equity as reports reveal pandemic impacts on births
Boram Kim | Apr 19, 2023 | Colorado
Subcommittee passes "Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act"
Emily Boerger | Nov 5, 2021 | Federal, Florida
5 Things Texas: 1115 waiver update, Early Bird registration, Maternal mortality
DJ Wilson | Jun 8, 2021 | Texas
This may be the calm before the storm. Thursday is the last published day on the Supreme Court calendar to release opinions from its current term (though they have a few more weeks for orders). It's a term that saw a meaningful challenge to the ACA last November. It was
5 slides: Are bundled payments the future of maternal health care funding?
Eli Kirshbaum | May 17, 2021 | Texas
To grapple with its world-leading rates of maternal mortality, U.S. health industry leaders are discussing ways to reform the country’s payment system for maternal health services in order to both cut costs and provide better care for mothers. Texas has some of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the
5 Things Maryland: Legislators shaping health policy, Maternal mortality, "Chronic COVID"
DJ Wilson | May 4, 2021 | Maryland
We are super excited to be kicking off our 2021 Maryland State of Reform Health Policy Conference next week! Because we feature things in this newsletter that we think are worth watching in Maryland health care, and because we know many of those topics are teed up on the agenda next
Q&A: Venus Standard explains importance of Black doulas
Shawna De La Rosa | Apr 26, 2021
Venus Standard is an assistant clinical professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine. She is launching a pilot program to recruit, train and increase the number of Black doulas in the state. It’s an effort that she hopes will improve the health outcomes
5 Things Illinois: Opioid Overdose Reduction Act, Vaccine rollout, Federal health reform
DJ Wilson | Apr 22, 2021 | Illinois
This monthly market and policy intelligence newsletter tries to tee up a few forward-looking topics to help inform your organization's decision making. Not all of these items will apply to every health care silo. The sector is diverse. So we try to bring a diverse set of things that we
5 Things NC: Policy cutoff, Maternal mortality, Federal health reform
DJ Wilson | Apr 22, 2021
We offer this newsletter each month as a market and policy intelligence tool where we highlight five things that we think are worth tracking for senior executives in health care and health policy. So, we bring a mix topics to you each month: policy insights, market info, personality profiles, state