Health Affairs April 19, 2024
Even as state and territory Medicaid programs and their many partners are suitably centered on the process of unwinding pandemic-related continuous eligibility requirements in Medicaid, the Medicaid program continues to be both the bedrock means of providing comprehensive health services to low-income people as well as the central seat of innovation in our health care system around people’s co-occurring health-related social needs. This latter strand of work is no longer aspirational or limited to a small set of vanguard states. Medicaid leaders have spent years building literacy and an evidence base around the opportunity to use Medicaid research and demonstration waivers to improve members’ lives and outcomes, as well as to achieve program savings. Building on this, 54 programs in...