Substance use service models led by people of color could dismantle structural racism in their field but are relatively small, underfunded, and often unrecognized by health care payers.
In a public comment letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Urban researcher Lisa Clemans-Cope highlights the evidence supporting the proposed flexibilities to opioid use disorder treatment, plus additional methadone treatment flexibility.
This chartbook summarizes perinatal health among North Carolina Medicaid beneficiaries in 2018 and establishes a baseline for evaluating the impact of North Carolina’s transition to Medicaid-managed care.
Urban used in-depth interviews to better understand the pandemic’s impact on access to and use of preventive health care, particularly among communities that have historically lacked access to high-quality health care services.
The Urban Institute will host a hybrid event on March 21 to launch an initiative to elevate health care
inequities as a national priority and build momentum for key remedies and structural reforms.
