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To help determine which health policy changes to the Medicare or Medicaid programs are desirable, the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) relies on formal evaluations, performed by outside contractors, of how smaller scale, typically voluntary, demonstrations and other initiatives impact outcomes of interest. However, determining causal impacts often relies on the key… Read More: How are CMMI health policy evaluations addressing non-parallel trends? »

In Los Angeles, the nation’s homelessness epidemic is playing out in broad relief. Criticized for an inability to visibly stem the local crisis, Los Angeles is now responding. Opening villages of tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness is part of a recent package of efforts gaining traction in the city. The situation in Los Angeles… Read More: Wrapped in Services and Art, Los Angeles Opens Tiny Homes… »

It’s hard to turn down a free lunch. It’s perhaps a little harder still if you’re paying for the free lunches of others. Yet, a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), that’s what is happening in some states. Legislatures opposed to the ACA are refusing federal dollars for Medicaid expansion; dollars that other… Read More: Thank You, Texas. Love, California »

Efforts to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19 in the U.S. have stalled out. Currently, just about 68% of all U.S. adults have received at least one dose, despite vaccines being widely available. This is due, in great part, to a “misinformation pandemic” that now threatens public health. With many people still spending considerable time working from… Read More: Misinformation Pandemic: A Digital Public Health Threat »