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Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program
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Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program
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UCLA CHPR received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
December 10, 2020
Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program
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Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program
Communications Team
UCLA CHPR received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
December 10, 2020
Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy
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Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy
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Results UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals

​A five-year Medicaid waiver program that infused billions of dollars into public hospitals prompted significant improvements in health care to California’s neediest population — the poor and uninsured, according to an extensive evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

June 28, 2017
Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy
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Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy
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Results UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals

​A five-year Medicaid waiver program that infused billions of dollars into public hospitals prompted significant improvements in health care to California’s neediest population — the poor and uninsured, according to an extensive evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

June 28, 2017
Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios
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Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios
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UCLA report finds that big cuts to health care benefits would hurt the disabled, children and elderly Americans The Trump administration’s intent to reform Medicaid includes financing changes that would save hundreds of billions in federal dollars over time, but at the expense of cutting significant health care benefits to tens of millions of the program’s most vulnerable recipients — the disabled, children and elderly Americans, according to a
April 27, 2017
Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios
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Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios
Communications Team
UCLA report finds that big cuts to health care benefits would hurt the disabled, children and elderly Americans The Trump administration’s intent to reform Medicaid includes financing changes that would save hundreds of billions in federal dollars over time, but at the expense of cutting significant health care benefits to tens of millions of the program’s most vulnerable recipients — the disabled, children and elderly Americans, according to a
April 27, 2017
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Three Questions with ​Jack Needleman on Medicaid
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Jack Needleman
​Jack Needleman is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a faculty associate at the Center. He was a panelist at the Feb. 15 Grand Rounds seminar on how repeal of the ACA would affect safety net providers and moderated the Jan. 25 Paul Torrens Health Forum on planning for changes to the ACA.
February 28, 2017
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Ask the Expert
Three Questions with ​Jack Needleman on Medicaid
Communications Team
Jack Needleman
​Jack Needleman is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a faculty associate at the Center. He was a panelist at the Feb. 15 Grand Rounds seminar on how repeal of the ACA would affect safety net providers and moderated the Jan. 25 Paul Torrens Health Forum on planning for changes to the ACA.
February 28, 2017
Increased hospital use following Medicaid expansion is mostly temporary
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Increased hospital use following Medicaid expansion is mostly temporary
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Pent-up demand for health care will decline significantly during the first year of enrollment The expansion of Medicaid to millions of uninsured people should not have the catastrophic impact predicted for state budgets because the increases in hospital and emergency-room usage are only temporary, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
October 15, 2014
Increased hospital use following Medicaid expansion is mostly temporary
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Increased hospital use following Medicaid expansion is mostly temporary
Communications Team
Pent-up demand for health care will decline significantly during the first year of enrollment The expansion of Medicaid to millions of uninsured people should not have the catastrophic impact predicted for state budgets because the increases in hospital and emergency-room usage are only temporary, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
October 15, 2014
Researchers find minimal state costs from Medicaid expansion
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Researchers find minimal state costs from Medicaid expansion
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​As the California Legislature prepares to consider bills relating to implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expanding Medicaid, the state has the opportunity to significantly increase health insurance coverage at minimal cost to the state budget, according to a joint study by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

January 08, 2013
Researchers find minimal state costs from Medicaid expansion
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Researchers find minimal state costs from Medicaid expansion
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​As the California Legislature prepares to consider bills relating to implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expanding Medicaid, the state has the opportunity to significantly increase health insurance coverage at minimal cost to the state budget, according to a joint study by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

January 08, 2013