Transforming Rural Health: How Abt Delivers
Abt Global offers the technology and expertise states need to make strategic investments
for transforming rural health systems.
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Abt is at NAMD 2025!
Abt is excited to connect with Medicaid leaders on ways to make its essential programs work better—for beneficiaries, for states, and for taxpayers. With six decades of nonpartisan partnership across 12 U.S. administrations, we marry deep policy expertise with modern data and AI capabilities to improve program integrity, streamline operations, and surface actionable insights for decision-makers.
Connect with our experts to learn more about our Medicaid and CHIP experience and discuss the future of healthcare.
Meet Our Experts at NAMD 2025
- Moira Forbes, Health Research Managing Director
- TJ Shumard, Health Research Project Director
Our Capabilities
Evaluating the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program
Medicaid provides critical assistance that enables people with limited resources and incomes to access acute and preventive medical care and long-term services and support. Innovations that simultaneously improve care for beneficiaries and promote…
Project
3 Tips for States Considering a Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System
Abt offers three tips to help states set up a quality rating system for their Medicaid and CHIP managed care programs.
Blog
Strategic Support for Medicaid & CHIP Managed Care Programs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the largest provider of health insurance in the United States. Two of CMS’ most impactful programs are Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provide essential health…
Project
Spotlight on: Medicaid Managed Care Quality Rating System
Abt Global has a long history of developing, monitoring, and reporting publicly on quality measures for CMS programs and care settings
Spotlight On
Tracking Minnesotans' Access and Use of Home and Community-based Health Services
Minnesota’s Department of Human Services wanted to leverage existing state data to develop measures to help monitor access to Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS). To build on our prior work evaluating critical access to the state’s…
Project
Additional Resources
A Use Case Roadmap for AI-Ready Community Health
A three-step process and scoring matrix help healthcare teams find, refine, and prioritize AI ideas that deliver real, measurable impact.
Publication
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Project
From Experiment to Action: How Medicare is Transforming Cancer Care
Cancer is one of the most expensive and complex conditions to treat. But can better care for cancer patients also cost less?
Impact Brief