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The Power of Price Transparency: Unveiling Health Care Prices to Promote Accountability and Lower Costs

Every person should have the right to know what a health care procedure costs at different hospitals or health care facilities, whether it is an X-ray, an MRI, or a surgery, yet that is not how it wor...

What It Costs to Have a Baby in America: A State-by-State Analysis

High and rising health care prices are hurting America’s families. These high prices, driven largely by hospital consolidation, drive down workers’ paychecks, rachet up insurance premiums, and for...

Working Toward True Health Care Payment Reform to Ensure Our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients

The way the US pays for health care is a major driver of unaffordable, low-quality care and poor health for our nation's families and individuals. Despite a decade of payment reform, volume-based paym...

How Illinois Can Make Health Insurance More Affordable

Increases in health care costs are negatively impacting individuals and small businesses in Illinois (and in other states) by making health insurance less affordable. This paper, developed by Famil...

Do the Right Thing: Shifting Health Care Payment Systems to Value-Based Incentives to Achieve Health Equity and Promote Racial Justice

The following report details the potential of payment reform to transform our health care system into one that facilitates health equity and promotes racial justice by comprehensively providing disenf...

When What Is Right is Also Popular: The Case for Person-Centered Care Through Payment Reform

The following report lays out the popular case for payment reform as a way to bring down health care costs, improve care and eliminate inequities. It also signals to policymakers that taking action on...

White Paper – A Hard Day’s Work: Promoting Sustainable Financing for Community Health Workers

In this white paper we discuss the importance of Community Health Workers (CHWs), and how they are essential to addressing health disparities in our communities. We then offer an overview of the curre...

Community Voice and Equitable Policymaking in the United States: Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

The effects of COVID-19 on the United States, and the world, underscore the importance of creating change that strengthens the health and economic well-being of vulnerable populations. Families USA la...

Case Study: Strategies for States to Maximize Medicaid Ex Parte Renewals and Limit Coverage Losses

More than 80 million people rely on Medicaid for their health insurance. If states do not proceed carefully when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration ends, a significant numb...

New Research: Strategies for Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Improving Health Care Access Among Medicaid Enrollees

It has been well documented that Medicaid enrollees face barriers to health care, including costs of care, difficulties accessing providers and insurance-based discrimination when accessing care, amon...