Marcia Nielsen, vice chancellor for public policy and planning at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said at the 2010 CSG Economic Summit of the States that to cut costs in state Medicaid programs, states have to know what they’re doing right and what areas can be improved.
“Legislators were so focused on welfare moms on where to find savings and looking at potential misuse of pharmaceuticals,” she said of her experience in Kansas. But the answer lay elsewhere. The data from studies Kansas conducted...