Contract tracing is an essential tool in the effort to control COVID-19, particularly when spikes in cases occur. By deploying the workforce effectively to trace infections, localities can determine appropriate mitigation policies. This tool allows users to estimatebased on the number of new cases, the size of the local population, and other factorshow many contact…
The emergence of the national Transformed Medical Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) provides an efficient way to track the Medicaid workforce to inform national and state efforts to ensure access for Medicaid populations. T-MSIS collects Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) data from US states, territories, and the District of Columbia, including fee-for-service and managed…
The 2023 Symposium featured experts from 9 federally-funded health workforce research centers discussing the most pressing issues facing the health workforce today. Recorded live on October 11, 2023 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. SESSION 1: Health Career Pathways – What’s Working? This session describes several very different health career paths—some that are…
Contract tracing is an essential tool in the effort to control COVID-19, particularly when spikes in cases occur. By deploying the workforce effectively to trace infections, localities can determine appropriate mitigation policies. This tool allows users to estimatebased on the number of new cases, the size of the local population, and other factorshow many contact…
The emergence of the national Transformed Medical Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) provides an efficient way to track the Medicaid workforce to inform national and state efforts to ensure access for Medicaid populations. T-MSIS collects Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) data from US states, territories, and the District of Columbia, including fee-for-service and managed…
Providers’ participation in Medicaid has been an ongoing area of interest for researchers, but there have been limitations to prior studies. For example, studies based on analyzing claims data have often been limited to data from a single state, and the last national-level analysis utilized 2009 Medicaid claims and was limited to 24 states. This article assesses primary care providers’ participation in Medicaid…
The Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) of 2000 created a pathway for clinicians to obtain waivers (“DATA waivers”) to treat patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) outside of an opioid treatment program, provided the clinicians met certification and training requirements. Prior research mainly relies on DATA-waiver status or prescription data alone to estimate the workforce,…
Telehealth use increased steadily in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic but underserved populations were among the least likely to use telehealth compared with affluent, privately insured populations. While recent studies have documented rapid growth in telehealth visits during the pandemic, none have analyzed the impact of telehealth on access to care. This…
The COVID-19 pandemic drove widespread use of telehealth, making the virtual care environment inherently different in 2021 than it had been previously. Due to unique financial constraints facing community health centers (CHCs), the sustainability of telehealth may be highly relevant to the relationship between telehealth utilization and payment parity. This article discusses the association between…
Social mission efforts in health professions education are helping to better prepare graduates with skills to address societal needs. These efforts are designed to strategically increase health equity and address health disparities. This article provides an overview of the social mission research landscape and discusses critical evidence gaps.