Author Archives: Matthew Toth and Lauren Palmer

About Matthew Toth and Lauren Palmer

Matt Toth, MSW, PhD is a health services researcher at RTI International’s program on Health Coverage for Low-Income and Uninsured Populations. His area of research focus is delivery system reform for the dually-eligible population, and long-term services and supports and behavioral health care needs for older adults. He currently serves as the Associate Project Director of the RTI’s evaluation of CMS’s Financial Alignment Initiative, and has led other studies funded by the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) focusing on older adults.

Financial alignment of Medicare and Medicaid may improve access to primary care

By | November 21, 2022
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Better care coordination may improve access to primary care for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Recent evaluations of the Financial Alignment Initiative (FAI)–an initiative incentivizing the financial alignment of Medicare and Medicaid–suggests care coordination could improve access to primary care services for some dually eligible beneficiaries. Care coordination alone, however, may… Read More »