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Evaluating the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program
Project
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…
Health Effects from Exposure to Aerosolized Cyanobacterial Toxins
Project
Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, or cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs), are becoming increasingly problematic as a result of reduced oxygen levels in bodies of water around the globe; Florida has been significantly impacted.
Monitoring Medicare’s Home Health, Hospice, and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Benefits
Project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health, hospice, home infusion therapy, home IVIG, and IRF benefits require constant monitoring of payment policy—and revisions, as needed—to ensure they are working as intended. This enables…
Abt Showcases Lessons Applied to Nigerian Family Planning Programming
Impact Brief
The Abt-led, USAID-funded SHOPS Plus program found new ways to bolster family planning training for practitioners.
Evaluating NYC’s Service Design Studio
Project
The Service Design Studio (the Studio) is a novel approach to enhancing the capacity of New York City (NYC) municipal staff to adopt service design—sometimes referred to as human-centered design or design thinking—as a strategy to improve city services,…
Caring for Residents with SUD in Long-Term Care
Project
Since 2016, Massachusetts has required long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to admit individuals requiring care who are also being treated with medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Failure to do so violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. While…
ATSDR Toxicological Profiles
Project
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) wants to better understand the characteristics of chemicals with a range of potential health effects—including cancer, endocrine, neurological, hematological, hepatic, and renal—found on the…
How TANF and Refugee Cash Assistance Serve Refugees
Project
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees federal efforts to resettle refugees and help them become self-sufficient. ORR administers the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) program, which…
Three Tips for Observing National Healthcare Quality Week … and Beyond
Blog
Abt’s Lynn Hoffman offers three tips for observing National Health Quality Week based on our work for CDC and on AHRQ’s Making Healthcare Safer III Report.