Background Penetration and participation of real life implementation of lifestyle change
programs to prevent type 2 diabetes has been challenging. This is particularly so among low …

OBJECTIVES: To describe the landscape of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance
Program beneficiary incentive programs for child health and garner key stakeholder insights …

Medicaid expansion, a key part of the Affordable Care Act, has been opposed by
conservative politicians despite its fiscal and public health benefits. In response, some …

Objective To examine the cost‐effectiveness of a community‐based Diabetes Prevention
Program (DPP) for Medicaid beneficiaries from the perspective of the health care sector …

Introduction Previous studies found that offering free nicotine patches significantly increases
calls to quitlines, although most used pre–post designs and did not directly compare the …

Introduction Financial incentives have been shown to improve recruitment of low-income
smokers into tobacco quitline services and to improve cessation outcomes. The present …

Written by a volunteer patient advisor, this issue brief provides at 50-foot view of patient
engagement as seen through the eyes of various stakeholders including payers, providers …

As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) moves the US healthcare system toward population health
through value-based purchasing policies (Shaw, Asomugha, Conway, & Rein, 2014), many …

Background The significance of Patient Engagement (PE) is widely acknowledged as a
crucial element in fostering positive health outcomes, elevating care quality, and …

Augmenting incentives for juveniles with separate incentives for parents could boost juvenile
efforts to reduce BMI. However, financing a parent incentive by reducing the incentives …