Health Equity
Protecting Access to Essential Reproductive Health Services Post-Dobbs
The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has dramatically shifted the reproductive health landscape in states, severely limiting access to abortion care and other reproductive health services for millions o...
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Working Toward True Health Care Payment Reform to Ensure Our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients
The way the US pays for health care is a major driver of unaffordable, low-quality care and poor health for our nation's families and individuals. Despite a decade of payment reform, volume-based paym...
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Do the Right Thing: Shifting Health Care Payment Systems to Value-Based Incentives to Achieve Health Equity and Promote Racial Justice
The following report details the potential of payment reform to transform our health care system into one that facilitates health equity and promotes racial justice by comprehensively providing disenf...
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Health Justice Now Webinar Series Part 9: Dismantling the Stigmas: Caring for survivors of domestic violence and addressing mental health in Latino/Latinx communities
This is part 9 of the Health Justice Now series. Families USA held a live discussion on integrated healthcare approaches with Jennifer Haddad Bell, the Program Consultant of Futures without Violenc...
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The Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States Got Worse During the Pandemic: Congress Must Act to Save Mothers’ Lives
Medicaid plays an essential role in maternal health, paying for almost half of all births. Federal law requires states to cover pregnancy, labor, and delivery care for low-income women through Medicai...
View MoreMedicare Oral Health Coalition Applauds “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage in Final 2023 MPFS
In this statement, the Medicare Oral Health Coalition applauds the inclusion of payment for “medically necessary” dental treatment in the final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This is an imp...
View MoreNearly 150 Organizations Sign Comments to Support Streamlining Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment
Families USA and Community Catalyst, along with nearly 150 state and national level organizations, submitted comments in support of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed regulation t...
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Opportunities for Whole Health Promotion: Research and Examples
The movement for health equity demands that health care move beyond exclusively clinical markers of well-being. Studies suggest that social determinants of health—including socioeconomic conditions,...
View MoreComments on “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage in Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Without Medicare dental coverage, millions of older adults and people with disabilities cannot afford the care they need to get and stay healthy. In this year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS...
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White Paper – A Hard Day’s Work: Promoting Sustainable Financing for Community Health Workers
In this white paper we discuss the importance of Community Health Workers (CHWs), and how they are essential to addressing health disparities in our communities. We then offer an overview of the curre...
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