State Health Care Transformation and Medicaid 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
Projects Relating to State Health Care Transformation and Medicaid Transformation
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Generating Evidence-Based Recommendations for Centering Equity in North Carolina Medicaid Value-Based Payment Design
Through this research project, our goal is to develop evidence-based recommendations for centering equity in NC Medicaid VBP design to reduce racial and ethnic inequities in health and health outcomes. Through a mixed methods approach using community-engaged research strategies and Medicaid claims-based simulations of payment model components, we will elevate community perspectives in VBP design...
Through this research project, our goal is to develop evidence-based recommendations for centering...
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COVID-19 Health Equity Learning Network
In 2021, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Academy for State Health Policy, and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy convened governor-appointed health equity COVID-19 task force leaders throughout the nation. The Equity Learning Network served as a platform for sharing best and promising practices for improving health equity in the context of the...
In 2021, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Academy for...
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The North Carolina Council on Health Care Coverage
Governor Roy Cooper announced the formation of The North Carolina Council for Health Care Coverage to be convened by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Council members include bipartisan members of the General Assembly and representatives from a variety of sectors including business, nonprofit, and health care. The Council is charged with reviewing the state of health care coverage in...
Governor Roy Cooper announced the formation of The North Carolina Council for Health Care Coverage...
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Accountable Care Transformation
The Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is investigating how accountable care approaches can improve care for people with serious illness, which is a next step in the Center’s work on accountable care. In partnership with Leavitt Partners, the...
The Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is...
The Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is...
Read MoreDuke-Margolis Faculty & Research Team
Nancy Allen LaPointe
Faculty Fellow, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine Faculty
Alida Austin
Policy Research Assistant
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
Kamal Golla, MD, MPH
Core Faculty
Katie Huber, MPH
Policy 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 the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
Emily Proehl, MPH
Policy Analyst
Samantha Repka, MS
Research Associate
Barak Richman, PhD
Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
2020 Intern Mentor
Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Executive 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
Brianna Van Stekelenburg, MPP
Research Associate
Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Core Faculty Member
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Events About State Health Care Transformation and Medicaid Transformation
More EventsEvent 4/11/2024
2024 Health Policy Conference: Updating Health Reform for the Next Decade: Key Challenges and New Opportunities
WASHINGTON, DC
As the near-term national dialogue turns to the 2024 election, how do we take this moment to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Early Childhood Housing Instability and Homelessness in North Carolina
Laura Stilwell, Michelle Franklin, Ainsley Buck, Stephanie Green, Sophie Hurewitz, Sophie Johnson, Karina Vasudeva, Beth Gifford, Gillian Sanders Schmidler, Rushina Cholera
Laura Stilwell, Michelle Franklin, Ainsley Buck, Stephanie Green, Sophie Hurewitz, Sophie Johnson, Karina Vasudeva, Beth Gifford, Gillian Sanders Schmidler, Rushina Cholera
2023
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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
Katie Huber, William Bleser, Rebecca Whitaker, Karina Vasudeva, Jessye Halvorson, Amanda Van Vleet, Michelle Lyn, Robert Saunders
Milbank Memorial Fund, 2023
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Health Care Use and Spending Among Need-Based Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries With Full Medicaid Benefits
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023
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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
Kamaria Kaalund, Ethan Phillips, Brandy Farrar, Krista Perreira, Monica Taylor, Magdalene Wellman, Gaurav Dave, Warren Kibbe, Michael Cohen-Wlkowiez, Andrea Thoumi
2023
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More NewsPress Release May 23, 2023
Community Health Workers Key to Advancing Health Equity
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they serve. New research shows they also are critical in the pursuit of more equitable health care. A new paper from Duke-Margolis outlines...
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of...
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Health Equity
Duke-Margolis aims to ensure that its health policy research and leadership contributes…