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  • Strategies to Reduce Medicaid Spending: Findings from a Literature Review

    Issue Brief

    This issue brief considers the feasibility of realizing substantial Medicaid cost savings through strategies aimed at improving delivery system and administrative efficiency. We review the literature about the potential for Medicaid cost savings from four strategies related to acute care services: (1) premiums, cost-sharing, and enrollee wellness incentives, (2) complex care management, (3) patient-centered medical homes, and (4) alternative payment models, and another four strategies related to long-term services and supports: (5) tightening financial eligibility rules for long-term care services, (6) promoting private long-term care insurance, (7) expanding home and community-based services (HCBS), and (8) increasing use of managed long-term services and supports.

  • White House Releases FY18 Budget Request

    Fact Sheet

    The White House released its FY 2018 budget request to Congress on May 23, 2017, which includes significant cuts to global health funding.

  • Financing Family Planning Services: The Impact of Reducing or Eliminating Funding

    News Release

    The American Health Care Act recently passed by the House of Representatives includes a provision to ban federal Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood. The Trump administration has also proposed reducing funding to HHS, which funds the Title X family planning program and community health centers.

  • Congress Releases FY17 Omnibus

    Fact Sheet

    On May 1, 2017, Congress released the FY 2017 Omnibus bill (and explanatory statements), which provides funding for the U.S. government through the rest of the fiscal year including for U.S. global health programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

  • U.S. Global Health Funding in Draft FY18 Budget Request

    Fact Sheet

    As reported in Foreign Policy, a draft of the Trump administration’s FY18 budget request for the State Department and USAID, expected to be submitted in full to Congress in May, proposes significant cuts to global health funding. According to a document obtained by Foreign Policy, funding for global health programs would total $6.