May 1, 2010

Payment Reform: Creating a Sustainable Future for Medicaid

The brief titled, Payment Reform: Creating a Sustainable Future for Medicaid, published by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) in May 2010, promotes Medicaid's ability to buy cost effective, quality care in both the acute and long-term care sectors. Specially, the brief addresses the importance of payment reform in Medicaid, the challenges Medicaid faces in implementing payment reforms, payment reform opportunities in Medicaid, and how federal and states roles might shift to create a more dynamic and effective partnership for tackling complicated and politically charged payment issues.