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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
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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 >>
HA 39/8 Gertner et al.

A CLOSER LOOK—Health Professions Education

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 And Practice."

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