Cancer is a devastating—yet all-too-common—diagnosis in the United States. Apart from uncertainty around treatment and outcomes, patients must also deal with the uncertainty of the financial burden treatment may pose—”What is my treatment going to cost, and how can I pay for it?” To participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Oncology Care […]

The states of Kansas and Missouri are among the 18 states that have opted not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Several foundations that promote a culture of health, help enroll people in health insurance, and support safety-net health care providers in these states shared a sense that people in Kansas and Missouri […]

State purchasing programs require evidence to inform their decision-making. RTI conducted an assessment for the state of Washington to determine which technologies should be included in and covered under the evidence-based purchasing program for the State of Washington Health Care Authority. We conducted the assessment by applying internationally recognized systematic review standards across a broad […]

Developing effective policies for long-term care services and supports (LTSS) requires an understanding of consumer preferences and what consumers are willing to pay for long-term care services. It also enables insurance companies to design long-term care policies that consumers may consider buying. To inform such policies, RTI conducted a national survey of adults regarding their […]

Successful Medicaid expansion requires an understanding of strategies for successful implementation. To inform such strategies, RTI assessed Medicaid expansion in five states. RTI conducted interviews to identify approaches and barriers to enrolling and serving newly eligible populations, impacts of expanded Medicaid coverage on providers that traditionally had high proportions of uninsured patients, and experience of […]

State Innovation Models (SIM) look to determine which health care transformation strategies and activities are most effective in improving population health. Seventeen states are in the process of implementing innovative models such as coordination of care across providers, health information technologies, integration of primary and behavioral health care, and managing population health. For example, states […]

For interventions without a randomized control group, a rigorous evaluation of the intervention requires the identification of a proper comparison group. RTI has designed and implemented various comparison group identification methodologies on a variety of projects, such as Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards (HCIA): Community Resource Planning, Prevention, and Monitoring Evaluation of the Multi-Payer […]

As part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation awarded more than 100 Health Care Innovation grants between $1–30 million over a three-year period to implement innovative care delivery models including care coordination, care management, home care, and telemedicine with specific, shared goals of improving outcomes and reducing costs. […]

Public health organizations need a central place to exchange information about their quality improvement initiatives. To meet this need, RTI developed and continues to maintain the Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange (PHQIX). Based on user-centered design, this online database includes a faceted search and a taxonomy that allows for diverse search capabilities and meets the […]

Community Benefit Insight (CBI) was developed by RTI International and the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University through the generous support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with the aim of improving health equity by increasing the transparency of health spending data. CBI is the first tool to provide data […]