Authors: Allison Rizer, ATI Advisory Date of Publication: February 16, 2022 The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a Hearing on Medicare-Medicaid integration last week, sponsored by Senators Casey (D., PA) and Scott (R., SC). As a health policy professional who...
Author: Allison Rizer For more than a decade, we’ve watched the Financial Alignment Initiative (FAI) evolve from a proposal in the Affordable Care Act to a set of programs operating in nearly a dozen states. FAI offered the promise of integration across Medicare and...
ATI Contributor: Allison Rizer Imagine eating at a restaurant and having to choose from more than 100 different salads on the menu. Slightly different ingredients, different sizes, different prices. Maybe some have the same ingredients but with different names....
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is disproportionately impacting Medicare beneficiaries also eligible for Medicaid (“dual eligible”). This is partially due to a combination of socioeconomic, racial, workplace, and clinical characteristics that align with other...
ATI Contributor: Allison Rizer The COVID-19 public health emergency continues to accentuate racially- and income-based healthcare disparities in our country. And individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid (“dual eligibles”) are at the center of it all....
