Health experts from AIR will present and share findings at AcademyHealth’s 2023 Annual Research Meeting (ARM), being held June 24-27 in Seattle, Washington. AcademyHealth is a leading national organization serving the fields of health services and policy research.
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The purpose of this project was to conduct a study of the education received by youth residing in licensed children's institutions (group homes) throughout California.
Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, CMS awarded 20 states planning grants to increase their capacity to provide community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid individuals. Building on work that started as part of the ARP National Evaluation, AIR summarized awardee state use of planning grants through a ...
Systems can work together to align their actions and decisionmaking. One way is through shared measurement: using a common set of measurable goals that reflect shared priorities across systems and with community members. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AIR explored how shared measurement helps systems and communities ...
During the last few years, the medical field has developed several medical-team training (MTT) programs, some implemented in the military and some developed for commercial medicine. This paper reviews the evidence-base for two categories of MTT, simulator-based programs and classroom-based programs. ...
The authors of this Child Welfare article review the evidence and practical considerations for an increased focus on addressing parental social determinants of health to counter parental substance use and support the welfare of both parents and children.
In a project for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, AIR developed tools and strategies to help hospitals effectively engage patients and families, with the goal of improving safety in health care across the country. AIR developed the Strategic Vision Roadmap for Person and Family Engagement to help these ...
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 established the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2015 to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula and to reward clinicians who provide high-value, high-quality care to Medicare patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the first year of the ...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) gave states an opportunity to permanently expand coverage from 60 days to 12 months postpartum through a State Plan Amendment (SPA) as of April 1, 2022. Building on work that started as part of the ARP National Evaluation, AIR summarized state uptake ...