Healthcare Policy

We collaborate with healthcare consumers, providers, academicians, and researchers to create NWHSU policy briefs on a range of healthcare topics.

• Closing Conservative Care Coverage Gaps in Medicare and Medicaid (June 2022)
• Integrative Care: Creating a Healthier, More Sustainable System (March 2022) 
• Opioids, Chronic Pain, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (August 2021)
• Health Creation: Moving Beyond Disease Management (April 2021)
• Racial Inequities In Integrative Healthcare (November 2020)
• A Wholistic Cross-Sector Workforce (June 2020)
• Recognizing CIH Providers (March 2020)
• Establishing Licensure For Massage Therapists (March 2020)
• Looking Beyond the Opioid Misuse Epidemic: The Role for Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain (June 2019)

CHIP also submits commentary on local and national healthcare strategy, on behalf of NWHSU:

• Opioid Action Plan, request for information to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (October 2019)
• Pain Management Best Practices, request for comment to the Department of Health and Human Services (March 2019)
• The Minnesota Fair Care Act: patients’ rights & provider nondiscrimination legislation (August 2017)