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Apr 20, 2022
We describe how commercial hospital payment rates changed relative to Medicare rates during 2012–19 and how trends differed by hospital referral region.
Zachary M. Levinson, Nabeel Qureshi, Jodi L. Liu, Christopher M. Whaley
Apr 6, 2022
This report presents an evaluation of a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers that focuses on early intervention for mental health challenges—an effort specifically aimed at the team's diverse fan base.
Rebecca L. Collins, Nicole K. Eberhart, Elizabeth Roth, Ingrid Estrada-Darley
Mar 10, 2022
This campaign focuses on prevention of and early intervention for mental health challenges. Surveys suggest that the fall 2020 and spring 2021 efforts reached a diverse group of county residents and boosted awareness of mental health resources.
Rebecca L. Collins, Nicole K. Eberhart, Ingrid Estrada-Darley, Elizabeth Roth
Mar 4, 2022
This study aimed to examine the content of the recommendations given to providers aimed at improving provider-patient interactions, characterize these recommendations, and examine their actionability.
Denise D. Quigley, Nabeel Qureshi, Alina I. Palimaru, Chau Pham, Ron D. Hays
Mar 3, 2022
The authors present national survey findings from secondary school principals and educators from the spring of the 2020–2021 school year, exploring educators' access to and use of supports for teaching students with disabilities.
Laura Stelitano, Heather Gomez-Bendaña, Lucas Greer
Feb 24, 2022
In this report, the authors assess how the implementation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Plan, which would lead to an unprecedented economic transformation, could contribute to a just and robust COVID-19 recovery.
David G. Groves, Edmundo Molina-Perez, James Syme, Gabriela Alvarado, Felipe De León Denegri, Juan Daniel Acuña Román, Agripina Jenkins Rojas
Feb 17, 2022
Social equity has become a key concern among public agencies. The authors developed an illustrative set of context-specific equity metrics that Southern California Edison could build on and incorporate into its ongoing work toward climate adaptation.
Nidhi Kalra, Swaptik Chowdhury, Kelly Klima, Liam Regan
Feb 15, 2022
To obtain a national picture of the staffing challenges that districts are facing in the 2021-2022 school year, RAND researchers surveyed 359 district and charter network leaders in the American School District Panel from October to December 2021.
Heather L. Schwartz, Melissa Kay Diliberti
Feb 11, 2022
To inform California's consideration of a policy to carve Medicaid financing of specialty behavioral health care into the state's Medicaid managed care system, the authors examine other states' experiences with this approach.
Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Jonathan S. Levin, Joshua Breslau, Jonah Kushner, Nicole K. Eberhart, Mallika Bhandarkar
Feb 8, 2022
This tool allows users to compare district leaders' responses to each question in the fall 2021 survey. Charts display results for all respondents and by district type, locale, student race/ethnicity, and district poverty level.
Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather L. Schwartz
This report provides technical information about the November 2021 survey of the American School District Panel. The authors describe districts' characteristics and the weighting process that was used to produce nationally representative estimates.
David Grant, Claude Messan Setodji, Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti
RAND researchers surveyed 359 district and charter network leaders in the American School District Panel to learn about the extent of challenges to schooling in 2021-2022, including student and teacher mental health and political polarization.
Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather L. Schwartz
