The journal Health Affairs has dedicated its July 2015 edition to “Medicaid’s Evolving Delivery Systems.”

health affairsThe edition includes the following articles about different aspects of Medicaid:

  • “Medicaid’s Growing Role in Care Delivery”
  • Once a Welfare Add-On, Medicaid Takes Charge in Reinventing Care”
  • “Medicaid at 50: Remarkable Growth Fueled by Unexpected Politics”
  • “Medicaid Moving Forward”
  • “Community Health Centers and Medicaid at 50: An Enduring Relationship Essential for Health System Transformation”
  • “Many Medicaid Beneficiaries Receive Care Consistent With Attributes of Patient-Centered Medical Homes”
  • “MetroHealth Care Plus: Effects of a Prepared Safety Net on Quality of Care in a Medicaid Expansion Population”
  • “Lessons From Medicaid’s Divergent Paths on Mental Health and Addiction Services”
  • “The Supreme Court Ruling That Blocked Providers From Seeking Higher Medicaid Payments Also Undercut the Entire Program”
  • “An Examination of Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Initiatives Under Way in Six States”
  • “Early Medicaid Expansion in Connecticut Stemmed the Growth in Hospital Uncompensated Care”
  • “Reducing Medicaid Churning: Extending Eligibility for Twelve Months or to End of Calendar Year is Most Effective”

Medicaid is, of course, among private safety-net hospitals’ most important payers.

Find the July edition of Health Affairs here.