State Health Care Transformation

The mission of the Duke-Margolis health care transformation portfolio draws on Duke’s clinical and research expertise to identify care delivery and payment transformation strategies that have an impact in real-world settings; cultivate stakeholder engagement; and develop quantitative and qualitative evidence for supporting major payment and care delivery reforms at the practice, state, and national level. Our portfolio includes:

Practice Transformation
Payment reform evidence, with special focus on:
Consumer engagement
Population health and social health risk factors
State health policy

Project

Generating Evidence-Based Recommendations for Centering Equity in North Carolina Medicaid Value-Based Payment Design

Project

North Carolina State Transformation Collaborative

Project

Practical, Timely Lessons for Advancing and Aligning North Carolina's Health Care Transformation Leadership to Address Social Needs

Project

Exploring Equitable Access to Care and Outcomes Using Telehealth in the Transition to Medicaid Managed Care

Project

Supporting Integration of Medicare and Medicaid in North Carolina

Project

COVID-19 Health Equity Learning Network

In 2021, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Academy for...

Project

Informing North Carolina’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Projected Service Needs of Medicaid Beneficiaries

Accountable Care Organizations

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is...

Population Health

Nancy Allen LaPointe

Faculty Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine Faculty
Margolis Core Faculty

William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH

Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Katie Huber, MPH

Senior Policy Analyst

Mark Japinga, MPAff

Research Associate

Gary Ross Maslow, MD

Margolis Core Faculty
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director of Child and Family Mental Health and Developmental Neurosci
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

Director of Margolis Center
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, MSc

Senior Policy Analyst

Emily Proehl

Policy Analyst

Samantha Repka

Research Associate

Barak Richman, PhD

Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Robert Saunders, PhD

Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Frank Sloan, PhD

J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Montgomery Smith, MPH

Senior Policy Analyst

Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc

Health Equity Policy Fellow
Faculty Director of Health Equity Educational Programming
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

Brianna Van Stekelenburg, MPP

Research Associate

Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH

Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Event 2/2/2023

Building Partnerships for Better Health: Launching North Carolina's State Transformation Collaborative

DURHAM, NC

The State Transformation Collaborative is a joint federal and state-led initiative designed to…

Event 10/24/2022

North Carolina Medicare-Medicaid Integration: Advancing Whole-Person Care

North Carolina is in the midst of a major shift from fee-for-service to Medicaid managed care and…

Event 7/28/2022

North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots: A Medicaid Managed Care Program to Address Social Needs

On Thursday July 28, 2022 at 10:00am ET, the Duke-Margolis Center and North Carolina Institute of…

Event 5/5/2022

Equitable Access to Care: Leveraging Telehealth for Medicaid Beneficiaries in North Carolina

The town hall will include study findings on telehealth use and access to care for people with…

Project Report

Addressing Social Needs through Medicaid: Lessons from Planning and Early Implementation of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots

Katie Huber, William Bleser, Rebecca Whitaker, Karina Vasudeva, Jessye Halvorson, Amanda Van Vleet, Michelle Lyn, Robert Saunders

Milbank Memorial Fund, 2023

Journal Article

Health Care Use and Spending Among Need-Based Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries With Full Medicaid Benefits

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023

Policy Brief

Opportunities to Enhance Health Equity by Integrating Community Health Workers into Payment and Care Delivery Reforms

Kamaria Kaalund, Ethan Phillips, Brandy Farrar, Krista Perreira, Monica Taylor, Magdalene Wellman, Gaurav Dave, Warren Kibbe, Michael Cohen-Wlkowiez, Andrea Thoumi

2023

Access to Health Care and Telehealth Use among North Carolina's Medicaid Beneficiaries with Musculoskeletal Health Conditions

2022

Press Release May 23, 2023

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