Health Policy & Workforce
As demographics change and healthcare systems merge and consolidate, the U.S. needs an agile workforce undergirded by responsive and innovative healthcare policies to improve health outcomes and quality. Abt’s policy and workforce experts help clients and partners comprehensively plan for—and solve—today’s most urgent healthcare priorities, including soaring costs and complex health conditions. Our research, data analysis, and technical assistance guide solutions like staffing models, quality indicators for long-term care facilities, and alternative payment models.
Expertise
- Primary Care and Community Health
- Measure Development and Reporting
- Health Workforce Staffing
- Alternative Payment Models
- Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP Programs
- Quality Improvement
Clients Include
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Health Resources & Services Administration
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Our Work
Revitalized U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau's strategic plan through data collection and analysis to measure MCHB's impact
Support and payment analyses for a new CMS home infusion therapy benefit for intravenous immune globulin treatment
Report on Burnout in Primary Care for administrators and leaders, with strategies to reduce administrative workloads and promote work-life balance
Analysis of which Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program models work best for support services, viral suppression, and outpatient care
Partnership with the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved to boost a pipeline program that places healthcare workers in remote and rural areas
Our Experts
Insights
Dissemination and Evaluation Center
Approaches to link and retain vulnerable people living with HIV (PLWH) in HIV primary care are critical to ending the HIV epidemic. While evidence-informed interventions exist, they have not been broadly adopted. That’s why the Health Resources and…
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…