This article describes staffing patterns for nearly 500 primary care practices in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Comprehensive Primary Care initiative before the initiative began. The study found most of the practices used traditional staffing models and did not report having...

The federal government has embarked on an ambitious course to ensure that most Americans have electronic health records (EHRs) within the next 10 years. Although EHRs have the potential to improve quality of care, reduce medical errors, and lower administrative costs, incorporating them into...

Presents a conceptual framework for designing, implementing, and testing interventions for low-income unmarried parents interested in strengthening their relationships and possibly forming and sustaining healthy marriages. The interventions would address the needs and circumstances of these...

This article measured current hospital use of electronic health record (EHR) systems using data from the 2012 health IT supplement to the American Hospital Association’s annual survey. According to the data, 44 percent of hospitals report having at least a basic EHR system, a 17 percent...

Medicare Options Compare, a website maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), helps beneficiaries choose among available Medicare Advantage plans. This AARP brief identifies strengths and weaknesses of the site. On one hand, it helps beneficiaries identify health plan...

Despite signs that low-income and uninsured people’s access to primary health care services has improved, serious gaps in care exist, especially for specialty physicians, mental health, and dental care according to findings from the Community Tracking Study. Key factors contributing to these...

This technical assistance brief, prepared for the Integrated Care Resource Center, provides basic information for states participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration covering Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. Although not a comprehensive...

Launched in January 2003, the Children's Health Initiative is designed to ensure that 100 percent of the county’s children have access to comprehensive health insurance coverage through increasing the number of children enrolled in existing public health insurance programs (Healthy Families...

This catalog compiles information from 54 studies of 39 family-strengthening programs that serve low-income couples. It documents the research on the programs’ effectiveness or impacts and the degree to which the studies demonstrate that a specific program (and not some other factor) led to...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends millions of dollars each year to provide scholarships to an elite group of highly talented undergraduate science students from disadvantaged backgrounds to encourage them to pursue careers in biomedical research. Mathematica’s evaluation found...