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Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)

Description
Works to promote high quality health care services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.

Resources (46)

2026

  • Advancing Medicaid Primary Care Population-Based Payment Models: Four Lessons for States, 01/2026, view details
  • Launching Rural Health Transformation Plans: Lessons from Other Large-Scale State Initiatives, 02/2026, view details

2025

  • Building Trust Through Integrated Outreach and Mobile Clinics for People Experiencing Homelessness: Tips for Providers, 03/2025, view details
  • Exercising Self-Governance Through an Indian Managed Care Entity: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Option, 03/2025, view details
  • Expanding Access to Integrated Medicare-Medicaid Programs in Rural Communities, 08/2025, view details
  • Innovative Solutions to Address the Oral Health Care Workforce Shortage: Insights from Michigan, 03/2025, view details
  • Navigating Natural Disasters: Key Strategies for Medicaid Agencies to Support Members, 03/2025, view details
  • Navigating Natural Disasters: Lessons from North Carolina's Medicaid Response to Hurricane Recovery, 06/2025, view details
  • PACE in Rural Communities: Emerging Evidence on Integrated Care for Older Adults, 11/2025, view details
  • Partnering to Improve Care for People Experiencing Homelessness Profile Series - Engaging the Community to Support People Experiencing Homelessness: Lessons from California's Tuolumne County, 03/2025, view details
  • Transforming Rural Health Care Through Medicaid Innovation: Tip Sheet Series, 10/2025, view details

2024

  • Addressing Travel Costs for Providers of Field-Based Services in Medi-Cal, 09/2024, view details
  • CMS-Approved Waivers Break New Ground for Medicaid Coverage of American Indian and Alaska Native Traditional Health Care Practices, 10/2024, view details
  • El Dorado Community Health Centers: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Rural California Through Community Partnerships, 01/2024, view details
  • A Federally Qualified Health Center and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Partnership in Rural Missouri, 01/2024, view details

2023

  • California Federally Qualified Health Center Alternative Payment Model Implementation Guide, 03/2023, view details
  • Engaging Families and Providers When Aligning Early Childhood and Medicaid Systems: State Lessons, 12/2023, view details
  • Maintaining Momentum to Advance Health Equity in Adverse Environments, 11/2023, view details
  • State Principles for Financing Substance Use Care, Treatment, and Support Services, 09/2023, view details

2022

  • Advancing Primary Care Innovation in Medicaid Managed Care: A Toolkit for States, 08/2022, view details
  • Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: Addressing the Health Needs of Children and Youth in Rural South Carolina, 11/2022, view details
  • Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: Supporting Aging Populations in Rural Utah, 11/2022, view details
  • Medicaid Population-Based Payment: The Current Landscape, Early Insights, and Considerations for Policymakers, 11/2022, view details

2021

  • Examining the Potential for Additional Rebalancing of Long-Term Services and Supports, 04/2021, view details
  • Medicaid and Housing Partnerships: A Resource for Local Health Departments, 07/2021, view details

2020

  • Recognizing and Sustaining the Value of Community Health Workers and Promotores, 01/2020, view details
  • Telehealth in Rural America: Disruptive Innovation for the Long Term?, 06/2020, view details

2019

  • Accelerating Value-Based Payment in California's Federally Qualified Health Centers: Options for Medicaid Health Plans, 08/2019, view details
  • At the Front Lines in Tennessee: Rural Clinic Offers Trauma-Informed Treatment for Substance Use Disorder, 06/2019, view details
  • Opportunities to Advance Complex Care in Rural and Frontier Areas, 05/2019, view details
  • Organizing Complex Care for Rural Populations: A Case Study of Three Montana Communities, 03/2019, view details
  • Project ECHO: Policy Pathways for Sustainability, 01/2019, view details
  • Strengthening Medicaid Long-term Services and Supports in an Evolving Policy Environment: A Toolkit for States, 03/2019, view details

2018

  • ThedaCare: Leveraging Community Paramedics To Bridge Persistent Gaps in Care, 05/2018, view details
  • Vermont Care Network and the State of Vermont: A Shared Data Repository for Community-Based Behavioral Health Providers, 06/2018, view details

2017

  • Catalyzing Medicaid-Public Health Collaboration to Reduce Childhood Obesity, 11/2017, view details
  • Disruptive Innovation in Medicaid Non-Emergency Transportation, 02/2017, view details
  • Examining Oral Health Care Utilization and Expenditures for Low-Income Adults, 11/2017, view details
  • Financing Project ECHO: Options for State Medicaid Programs, 09/2017, view details
  • Integrating Community Health Workers into Complex Care Teams: Key Considerations, 05/2017, view details
  • Medicaid Financing Models for Project ECHO, 09/2017, view details
  • Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care, 10/2017, view details
  • Using Community Health Workers and Volunteers to Reach Complex Needs Populations, 04/2017, view details

2016

  • Accountable Care Organizations: Looking Back and Moving Forward, 01/2016, view details
  • Guiding Innovations to Improve the Oral Health of Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries, 01/2016, view details

Undated

  • Supporting Older Adults in Rural Communities: Home- and Community-Based Care, view details