This online brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare’s Health System Tracker takes a closer look at the amounts and types of health spending for people with employer-based health insurance who have continuing high health care spending (for three consecutive years). The analysis includes data on what types of care people with persistently high spending are...
Medications for opioid use disorder are evidence-based and, in combination with evidence-based behavioral health interventions, are best practice. But successful medications for addiction treatment (MAT) programs need to do more than just prescribe and dispense medication — they must also be designed to address the complex health and social needs of the patients seeking care....
This tool from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America was developed from a workshop presentation at Putting Care at the Center 2018. The resource introduces J-PAL’s “generalizability framework,” a practical approach for using evidence to assess whether a given program can be replicated or adapted to work in a new setting....