Category Archives: Health

Evidence-based Opioids Treatment and Prevention

New report from the Social Innovation Research Center. Evidence-based Opioids Treatment and Prevention How SAMHSA Could Use Proven Programs and Practices to Help Halt an Epidemic April 11, 2018 http://socialinnovationcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SAMHSA-Opioids.pdf

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Canary in a Coal Mine? SAMHSA’s Clearinghouse Signals Larger Threat to Evidence-based Policy

It started as a simple story. Once again the Trump administration had demonstrated its reputed disdain for facts and evidence. This time it had revoked the contract of one of the federal government’s top evidence clearinghouses — one that reviewed … Continue reading

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SAMHSA Issues Statement on Evidence, But Still No Word on Its Clearinghouse

Perhaps to mollify critics of its decision to stop work on its evidence clearinghouse, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced two new sources of technical assistance to help communities that are grappling with opioids and … Continue reading

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Trump Administration’s First Work-based Medicaid Waiver May Produce Little New Evidence

A new waiver policy intended to promote work by Medicaid recipients drew substantial criticism when it was announced by the Trump administration earlier this week. But will it generate any valuable new evidence of what works? It is too early to … Continue reading

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Trump Administration Terminates SAMHSA Evidence Clearinghouse Amid Questions About Its Objectivity

A Trump administration decision to terminate the contract of one of the federal government’s top evidence clearinghouses, the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), has raised questions about its ongoing commitment to evidence.  But the decision may have actually … Continue reading

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Trump Administration’s Plan B for Evidence-based Welfare Reform? Medicaid Waivers

Just days after a weekend retreat at Camp David, where President Trump and the Republican congressional leadership agreed to set aside House Speaker Paul Ryan’s ideas for welfare reform, a Plan B appears to be emerging. The goal?  Encourage more … Continue reading

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Medicare Value-based Care Program Penalizes Physicians Serving High-risk Patients

A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has indicated that value-based payments to physicians in the Medicare program penalize those who serve socially or medically high-risk patients. The study investigated first year results for the … Continue reading

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Will Republicans Keep CMMI After All?

With President-elect Trump and Republicans in Congress both elected on a platform of repealing Obamacare, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which was created by the law, would seem to be a likely target for elimination. Perhaps not. … Continue reading

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CBO Says CMMI Will Save $34 Billion Over 10 Years

In testimony before the House Budget Committee, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will save the federal government $34 billion over the next ten years (2017-2026). CMMI was established by the … Continue reading

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