Top Five Things to Ensure the Success of the American Rescue Plan Act
The American Rescue Plan Act funding is an exciting opportunity to advance health equity and racial justice, specifically by investing in communities. [ Blog ]
Community Catalyst believes everyone deserves high-quality health care that fully serves their needs and helps them lead healthier lives. We are working to transform our health system to become one that is truly people-centered.
The American Rescue Plan Act funding is an exciting opportunity to advance health equity and racial justice, specifically by investing in communities. [ Blog ]
While we work to improve services for our communities, conservative legislators in 20 states have introduced legislation to ban access to medically necessary, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary (TNB) youth. [ Blog ]
Not-for-profit consumer advocacy groups Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program found that there's no way to ensure low-income patients are able to access and afford services at urgent-care clinics or retail health clinics. [ News Clip ]
Statement of Emily Stewart, executive director of Community Catalyst, in response to President Biden’s $400 billion proposal to expand homecare and improve living conditions of homecare workers within the America Jobs Plan. [ Press Release ]
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Community Catalyst releases statement on the confirmation of Dr. Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender person confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as Assistant Secretary of HHS. [ Press Release ]
The 117th Congress is in full swing and while all eyes have been focused on the recently enacted COVID-19 relief package, we have also seen lawmakers introduce a number of oral health related bills. [ Blog ]
The endurance of the ACA for over a decade is a testament to the strength of our collective efforts in the never-ending fight for progress. [ Alert ]
Since taking office, President Bident has signed a flurry of executive orders (EOs) that make concrete policy change and jumpstart the Biden-Harris Administration agenda committed to driving more equity into systems and policies. [ Blog ]
Relationship building is at the heart of organizing. In particular, building relationships with people on the ground who care about their communities and are impacted by issues is essential to making meaningful change. [ Blog ]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, home health workers find themselves in an incredibly difficult bind – how can they deliver necessary services while keeping themselves and their clients safe? [ Blog ]
Much has been written about the terrible toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the older adult population, and in particular, those living in nursing homes. Also at high risk are many of the the nearly 7 million older adults living in the community. [ Blog ]
The endurance of the ACA for over a decade is a testament to the strength of our collective efforts in the never-ending fight for progress. [ Alert ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments on ACL’s Strategic Framework for Action: State Opportunities to Integrate Services and Improve Outcomes for Older Adults and People with Disabilities. [ Comment Letter ]
This document lays out 10 principles to guide efforts in the health care sphere to address the social and economic determinants of poor health in ways that elevate and support patients and communities -- critical to achieving health justice. [ Publication ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments on Medicaid Quality Measure – New Medicaid Beneficiaries Using HCBS First. [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments to CMMI in response to RFI on direct provider contracting. [ Comment Letter ]
Community Catalyst comments in response to the stakeholder letter regarding efforts by a bipartisan group of senators lead by Senator Cassidy to increase health care price and information transparency. [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation Comments on Development, Implementation, and Maintenance of Quality Measures for the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments in response to the request for information on the proposed new direction for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation [ Comment Letter ]
A new report released jointly by the Center and LeadingAge discusses factors that would reduce states’ abilities to provide LTSS in a per capita cap system and the impacts of such a system on the labor force that provides home-based care. [ Publication ]
This report jointly produced by the Center and the SNP Alliance examines how two special needs health plans are responding to social determinants of health to improve health outcomes for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. [ Publication ]
Community Catalyst has been awarded a five-year $14.8 million legacy grant by The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop and promote a consumer agenda around “health system transformation,” fundamental changes reshaping health care delivery in America.
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