Weekly Medicaid Update

Oct 25, 2023 | Medicaid

The brief highlights recent Medicaid policy developments in key states over the past week, including, but not limited to: IL: Pauses enrollment in Medicaid program expanding coverage to non-citizen seniors MA: CMS approves state plan amendment making PDN rate enhancements permanent SD: ~14% of newly eligible residents have signed up for Medicaid in first 60 days of the Medicaid expansion program Click to read more.

The Behavioral Health Ecosystem: When Will Policy Catch Up To Innovation?

Oct 24, 2023 | Behavioral, BRG Publications

This special report highlights the complex ecosystem that compromises behavioral health in the United States. The Behavioral Health Ecosystem explores policy limitations, nonprofit and commercial health plan responses, and other topics affecting behavioral health in 2023 including telehealth, staffing, and quality. Save the date for a discussion on the report Friday, November 10 at 12pm ET. Click here to read more. 

Managed Care Friday

Oct 20, 2023 | Managed Care Friday

145,000: The number of health care providers that left their jobs across 2021 through 2022 – almost half of them physicians, according to a data analysis by Definitive Healthcare. Worryingly, specialties that lost the most providers were internal medicine, family medicine, and clinical psychologists. Any Guess? The largest healthcare union is, wait for it, in Minnesota…where providers at Allina Health recently voted to unionize, which will create the largest healthcare union in the U.S. Union Deal: Healthcare unions have been in the spotlight recently – unions representing 85,000 Kaiser...