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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. In this context, policy efforts like the Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514) Legislation like H.R.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

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Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks.