Research Highlights

More than a quarter of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents are hospitalized annually in the US. Bed-hold policies protect residents’ rights to return to their facilities by reserving their beds during brief absences, such as hospitalizations or therapeutic leaves. State Medicaid programs that adopt these policies can reimburse NHs at either the...

Approximately 30 percent of the 13.6 million dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in the US have serious mental illnesses (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. While dual Medicare-Medicaid coverage has the potential to support access to comprehensive services to address these needs,...

Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, assistant professor of population health sciences, has received an R01 from the National Institute on Aging to study the impact of the Civil Monetary Penalties (CMP) program...