Medicaid can and should play an active role in advancing health equity.

Specifically, Medicaid policy can improve health equity through several pathways, including (1) collecting member demographics and social determinants of health, (2) monitoring and evaluating health equity in Medicaid policy, and (3) incentivizing health equity. MONITORING AND EVALUATING HEALTH EQUITY IN MEDICAID Without federal Medicaid analytic data sets that enable and accelerate equity-focused research, coalitions of the willing are taking the first steps in driving policy change by innovating in this space to monitor and evaluate health equity. Currently, 92% of Americans have health insurance, the highest coverage rate in our nation's history.1 Much of the growth in coverage comes from states expanding Medicaid eligibility over the past decade and maintaining enrollment in Medicaid programs in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Platforms like MODRN provide cross-state evidence needed to facilitate evidence-based policy making in Medicaid programs, including emerging efforts to incentivize equity in Medicaid managed care contracts. [Extracted from the article]