CHRT announces its new class of Health Policy Fellows
We’re pleased to announce that the 2022 cohort of CHRT Health Policy Fellows has been selected. These fellows will complete a four-month curriculum designed to build bridges between Michigan’s academic health researchers, nonprofit health leaders, and policymakers in Lansing. The 2022 CHRT Health Policy Fellows are: Policymakers Eva Cline – Policy Advisor, Michigan State House Republicans Brianna Egan – Legislative …
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CHRT welcomes new staff with expertise in integration, communication and graphic design, program evaluation, and administration
The Center for Health and Research Transformation is happy to welcome new staff with backgrounds in integration, graphic design, program evaluation, administration, and communication. Sharon Kim – Associate Director Sharon Kim is an associate director at CHRT. She supports CHRT’s growing work focused on health equity and the integration of clinical and social services through interventions powered by information and …
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Detroit Free Press: Affordable Care Act sign-ups surge in Michigan, uninsured rate hovers just above 5%
Samantha Iovan, a senior health policy project manager at CHRT, comments on Obamacare enrollment in the Detroit Free Press.
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Concentrate, In The Media: Reflecting on the Washtenaw Health Initiative’s 10 year anniversary
A new article in On the Ground Ypsilanti reflects on ten years of Washtenaw Health Initiative (WHI) accomplishments. The Washtenaw Health Initiative is a voluntary collaboration to improve the health of low-income, uninsured, under-insured, and underrepresented people in Washtenaw County. Co-sponsored by Michigan Medicine and the St. Joseph Mercy Health System and supported by the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT), the Washtenaw Health …
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We’re launching a community integrated health network for senior services in Southeast Michigan and beyond
The Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan has recently received grants from the federal Administration for Community Living and the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation to expand and enhance a local collaborative that provides medically tailored meals, and referrals to home and community-based services, to vulnerable seniors and individuals with disabilities.
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In The Media, State of Reform: Nancy Baum on Medicaid funding for Certified Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC)
State of Reform quoted Nancy Baum, health policy director for the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT), in an article by Patrick Jones on funding for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs). Published on October 19, 2021, the article reports on a press conference announcing that thirteen Michigan CCBHCs will be fully funded by Medicaid in the same way …
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Here’s to administration: How a wonky thing like backbone support is improving one county’s homeless response system
“When the typical homeless client is entering a shelter, they’re probably having the worst day of their life,” says Andrew Kraemer, Washtenaw County Continuum of Care (CoC) data and evaluation specialist. One new strategy that organizations in Washtenaw County are using to help clients on that worst day is diversion. Housing Access for Washtenaw County (HAWC) and the Shelter Association …
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Insurance companies are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID hospitalizations. Seems fair to me.
By Melissa Riba, director of research and evaluation, Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT) In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurers stopped charging their members for COVID-related hospitalizations. Partly, that was just common sense. Charging copays and deductibles in the middle of a global pandemic–when people were sick and worried and losing their jobs–would have discouraged people …
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New Health Equity Project aims to significantly reduce health disparities for vulnerable residents in five Michigan counties
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pledged to provide a $9 million Medicaid match to launch a new Health Equity Project in five Michigan counties. The Health Equity Project aims to help these counties reduce health disparities associated with pressing social needs such as housing instability, food insecurity, transportation, health system complexity, and other socioeconomic factors …
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Bridge Magazine, In The Media: Melissa Riba quoted in Bridge Michigan on reinstituted copays and deductibles for COVID-19 patient cost-sharing
Bridge Michigan’s Robin Erb and Makayla Coffee quote Melissa Riba, director of research and evaluation at the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT), in “Costs rising for Michigan COVID care with return of deductibles, copays.” The story discusses an upcoming shift in patient cost burden for COVID-related illnesses—costs that have largely been waived by Michigan’s largest insurers for more …
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