RAND Corporation

🏥 Healthcare

Jul 18, 2026

Association of Coverage-Promoting Policies With Initiation and Discontinuation of Buprenorphine Treatment During Medicaid Unwinding

We examined associations between coverage-promoting policies and changes in initiation and discontinuation of buprenorphine treatment during Medicaid unwinding

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 18, 2026

Variations in Incidence and Financial Burdens of Nonpancreatic Postendoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Adverse Events

Nonpancreatic ERCP adverse events occur in over 5% of cases and can impose a substantial financial burden on both healthcare systems and patients

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 18, 2026

The Texas Abortion Ban and Maternal Mental Health

To examine the association of the implementation of Texas Senate Bill 8 abortion law, which banned abortions after embryonic cardiac activity in September 2021, with maternal mental health outcomes

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 17, 2026

How Do Services Offered Within Opioid Treatment Programs Vary Based on State Methadone Policies?

In this study, we compare the availability of medication for opioid use disorder options, psychosocial services, and housing supports across OTPs operating in states with different levels of OTP policy restrictions

United States

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📚 Education

Jul 17, 2026

A Mile Wide, an Inch Deep

This brief is the first in a three-part series from the American School District Panel, a research partnership between RAND and CRPE that surveys hundreds of school district leaders

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 17, 2026

Implementation and Sustainability of Hospital-Based Addiction Consultation Services

Findings suggest that funding stability and lack of adequate post-discharge treatment services are ongoing barriers to addiction consultation services sustainability

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 16, 2026

Availability of Telehealth Services for Children at Mental Health Treatment Facilities

To quantify what percentage of MHTFs offer telehealth services for children and what facility-level, state-level, and county-level factors are associated with offering any telehealth services and specifically medication management via telehealth

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 16, 2026

Developing Patient-Reported Measures of Serious Illness Care Quality

We developed surveys that can be used to derive patient-reported quality measures for use in assessment of home-based serious illness programs and community-based serious illness care

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jul 16, 2026

How to Deliver on NATO 3.0

Assesses the Trump Administration's NATO 3.0 approach to European burden-sharing, considering how tariffs, pressure over Greenland, and other competing objectives conflict with the goal of redirecting U.S. resources to higher priorities

Global

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👥 Society

Jul 15, 2026

What support do our veterans and serving military members need, and how can we best meet those needs?

The Royal British Legion (RBL) commissioned RAND Europe to produce the first detailed forecasts of the size and demographics of the UK Armed Forces community, which will become smaller, increasingly demographically diverse and intergenerational

Global

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 15, 2026

Expanding Technical and Professional Components to all Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Services

Revising Medicare’s allocation of indirect practice expenses to depend on both physician work and clinical labor for all services would align payments between services with and without separately billable professional and technical components

United States

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📈 Economy

Jul 15, 2026

RAND Corporation's Fiscal Year 2024 990 Tax Return

This document contains the RAND Corporation’s 2025 tax return

United States

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