In a Hill briefing, “Healthier and Wealthier, or Sicker and Poorer? Prospects for Medicare Beneficiaries Now and in the Future,” AIR Vice President Marilyn Moon describes the impact some cost-saving proposals now before Congress would have on many Medicare recipients. [video available]
Ensuring medicines and other essential health commodities are available to patients when and where they need them is a key concern in Kenya. The health supply chain must be unfailing to the last mile and must demonstrate accountability and transparency given the high volume and value of those commodities. In ...
With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, AIR is working with the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission to evaluate the effects of the State of Maryland's modified payment structure for acute inpatient stays at non-federal hospitals.
The Conditional Cash Transfer Program Avancemos Program was developed by the Government of Costa Rica to combat the rising problem of drop-out and abandonment in secondary school. An evaluation was conducted of the program, designed to provide monetary compensation to beneficiary households with the requirement that their students regularly attend ...
Disadvantaged populations are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. AIR helps support the distribution of free materials that raise public awareness around human trafficking and connect victims to emergency services.
California was the first state in the nation in 2002 to enact paid family leave for workers to bond with a new child or care for an ill family member. AIR led a research study, in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, to examine the relations ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
More than 12 million people are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Because they tend to have greater health needs and lower incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries, dually eligible people often experience challenges with care delivery and integration between Medicare and Medicaid. With support from Arnold Ventures, AIR aimed to ...
AIR has been selected to lead a world-class team of experts in health care quality to measure patient experiences and outcomes in the largest undertaking to date by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to transform primary care practice in America—the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model. CPC+ incentive ...
Many cultural, socioeconomic, and health-related factors contribute to the HIV epidemic and prevention challenges in U.S. transgender communities. As part of the Act Against AIDS Initiative, AIR works with the CDC to adapt existing and develop new HIV prevention and communication materials for healthcare providers and community-based organizations that treat ...