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  • Medicaid will cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans in 4 states
    Medicaid has announced a two-year pilot program which covers traditional Native American healing practices in four states. The author explores the program through the lens of one Native American who recovered from addiction in a Native-led treatment house.
    October 2024
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Substance Use and Misuse, Medicaid
  • Medicaid expansions and differences in guideline-adherent cervical cancer screening between American Indian and white women
    Background Although preventable through screening, cervical cancer incidence and mortality are higher among American Indian and Alaska Native women (AIAN) than White women. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions may uniquely impact access and use of cervical cancer screening among AIAN women and ultimately alleviate this disparity. Methods Using Medicaid…
    January 2023
    Cancer, Medicaid
  • Addressing maternal and infant health inequities
    Maternal health outcomes in the United States have reached crisis levels compared with the rest of the world, and they’re getting worse. Preterm birth rates have increased in the U.S. for the past 5 years, and the number of birthing people who experience Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) has also continued to grow. These poor outcomes, however, impact some more than others. Black birthing people…
    June 2021
    Maternal/Child Health, Medicaid
  • Exploring strategies to fill gaps in Medicaid race, ethnicity, and language data
    As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding and persistent challenges in collecting complete, accurate, and consistent race, ethnicity and language (REL) data. This expert perspective provides an overview of current REL data collection standards; ideas for increasing completeness in data by engaging the enrollee and enrollment…
    October 2020
    Medicaid
  • Using the ecological systems theory to understand black/white disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States
    Maternal morbidity and mortality (MMM) is a significant problem in the USA, with about 700 maternal deaths every year and an estimated 50,000 "near misses." Disparities in MMM by race are marked; black women are disproportionately affected. We use Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to examine the root causes of racial disparities in MMM at the individual (microsystem), interpersonal…
    July 2020
    Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Medicaid, Racism
  • The effects of income on children's health: Evidence from supplemental security income eligibility under New York state Medicaid
    There is a well-established association between income and child health. We examine the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children’s health, using a regression…
    January 2020
    Maternal/Child Health, Medicaid
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