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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

How Foundational Moments In Medicaid's History Reinforced Rather Than
Eliminated Racial Health Disparities

By LaShyra T. Nolen, Adam L. Beckman, and Emma Sandoe

While Medicaid serves as an essential safety net and has contributed to
improved health outcomes for minority populations, foundational moments
in the program's history led to inequities in health care access, and
the racial disparities and disparate health outcomes that followed. Read
More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

ACA Round-Up: Navigator Grantees, EHB Changes, And More

By Katie Keith

On August 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
announced $10 million in grants to 30 organizations to serve as
navigator entities in 28 states that use the federal Marketplace. CMS
separately announced that three states-Michigan, New Mexico, and
Oregon-have updated their essential health benefits (EHB) benchmark
for 2022. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

RESEARCH ARTICLE: OPIOID USE DISORDER

Primary Care Providers And Specialists Deliver Comparable Buprenorphine
Treatment Quality

By Alex K. Gertner, Allison G. Robertson, Byron J. Powell, Hendree
Jones, Pam Silberman, and Marisa Elena Domino  

To help stem the rising numbers of opioid overdose deaths, primary care
providers have stepped in to help deliver buprenorphine treatment. Alex
Gertner and coauthors note, however, that "policy makers and providers
have raised concerns that expanding treatment access may reduce
treatment quality and that primary care providers are not well equipped
to deliver buprenorphine treatment." To unpack this policy concern,
the authors investigated buprenorphine treatment use and quality change
in North Carolina Medicaid, and looked at how treatment quality differed
between primary care providers and specialists.
Read More >>

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Is health professions education meeting the standards that future
doctors need to enter the field? Reread: "Reforming Health Professions
Education Will Require Culture Change And Closer Ties Between Classroom
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