That’s Medicaid: When Your Recovery Inspires Others
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When Your Family Needs A Lifeline
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When a Child Needs Care
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When Accessibility Helps You Reach New Milestones
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When You Need the Essentials
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When Life Goes Off Script
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When Regaining Coverage Lets You Live Your Best Life
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When You’re Able to Live Freely (AL)
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When You Recover from a Rocky Start
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
That’s Medicaid: When Support Means a Future
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Medicare Isn’t Enough
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Normal No Longer Exists
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Work Is Not Enough
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Care Is Out of Reach
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Need Help Getting Back On Your Feet
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Support Means Life
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Become a Voice for Others Like You
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Support Helps Find Your Passion
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Good Health Becomes Accessible
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Fill a Community Need
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Work to Live an Independent Life
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Work Is Not Enough
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When A Community Needs Care
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Need to Bounce Back
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
When You Fill a Community Need
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Health Issues Persist
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
That’s Medicaid: When Past Struggles Create Opportunities to Help Others
This commentary shares how Medicaid covered Barbara's son's mental healthcare after he was diagnosed with bipolar and oppositional defiant disorder.
That’s Medicaid: When You Care for a Family
This commentary shares the story of Natalie and her family. Natalie was born with a disability but access to Medicaid has allowed her to live her best life possible, at home with her parents.
When a Life Is Saved
This commentary discusses how Medicaid supported Susie when she learned her young daughter Tymia was diagnosed with sickle cell disease.
When You Recover from a Rocky Start
This commentary shares how Medicaid supported Matthew with the medical care and behavioral health services he needed for his anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
When Support Helps Find Your Passion
This commentary tells the story of how Medicaid guided Alicia through her pregnancy and the birth of her son while incarcerated.
When the Unexpected Happens
This commentary tells the story of John, who turned to Medicaid for health coverage to treat a strangulated hernia.
When You’re Able to Live Freely
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage to building a nationwide Culture of Health.
A New Actionable Framework to Improve Health Equity Strategies
Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Raising the Bar provides an actionable framework for the entire healthcare sector to embed equity throughout its work and help achieve optimal health for all.
That’s Medicaid: A Financial and Personal Lifeline
This commentary tells the story of Theresa. At an early age, she was diagnosed with Spastic Quadriplegia Cerebral Palsy, a disorder that affects a person’s ability to maintain balance and posture. Now in her 40s, Medicaid allows her to work and live independently. It also provides her with speech, physical and occupational therapies, a wheelchair and the help of personal care attendants who assist with basic needs such as meal preparation, cleaning, dressing, and laundry.
That’s Medicaid: When You’re There for Family
This commentary tells the story of Sonia, whose adopted son has developmental disabilities and requires frequent medical testing to stay healthy.
Past local government health spending was not correlated with COVID-19 control in US counties
This study examines the association between pre-pandemic state-level public health spending, county-level non-hospital health spending, and effective COVID-19 control at the county level.
State Preemption of Municipal Laws and Policies that Protect Immigrant Communities: Impact on Latine Health and Well-Being in North Carolina
This journal article explores the consequences of state preemption laws in response to municipalities declaring themselves "sanctuary cities."
State-by-State Reach of Child Nutrition Policies
This interactive map allows users to explore state-by-state data about child food insecurity, and how federal nutrition programs can support better child nutrition.
That’s Medicaid: When Support Means a Future (New Mexico)
This commentary tells the story of Sabrina, who plans to become a doctor, and how her experience as a Medicaid recipient informed how she sees the U.S. health care system.
That’s Medicaid: When Medicare Isn’t Enough (Washington)
This commentary tells the story of Margot C., who has limited mobility due to rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and a spinal cord injury. Medicaid provided her housing in a residential care setting that her private insurance could not provide. Now, Margot helps her peers sign up for Medicaid.
That’s Medicaid: When You Participate in the Community (Columbus, Ohio)
This commentary tells the story of Maddy K., a 23-year-old who has Asperger syndrome who is able to work two part-time jobs, volunteer frequently, and be part of a community organization for those with disabilities because of Medicaid's ability to provide her with essential transportation.
That’s Medicaid: When Normal No Longer Exists (New Jersey)
This commentary tells the story of Dominique G., who spent most of her life in hospitals due to sickle cell disease. Medicaid coverage provided her regular hematologist visits, appropriate equipment and medications to make living at home possible.
Marketplace Pulse: Participation in 2022
This blog examines recent happenings with insurer participation in the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
When Support Helps Find Your Passion (Oregon)
This commentary tells the story of Alicia, whose Medicaid-assigned doula guided her through pregnancy while in incarceration and the birth of her son.
Expanding Medicaid to Help Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
This webinar discusses the research on how Medicaid saves lives, reduces costs, and helps eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
Infographic: Medicaid Expansion is a Win for All
This infographic examines how expanded coverage has saved lives, reduced health care costs, narrowed racial disparities, and provided peace of mind to those who would otherwise have been uninsured.
Medicaid: Providing Needed Access to Healthcare for One in Five People in the United States.
This resource page compiles the latest Robert Wood Johnson funded research on the benefits of closing the Medicaid coverage gap.
Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap is a Health, Economic, and Moral Imperative
This blog post outlines the potential coverage gains, state cost savings, and improved health outcomes that would occur if the remaining 12 nonexpansion states extending their Medicaid programs in accordance with the Affordable Care Act.
That’s Medicaid: Down Syndrome Coverage
This brief highlights the stories of people with Down syndrome who have benefited from Medicaid coverage.
Exploring the Pathways to Medicaid Leadership
This report highlights key findings from a survey, interviews, and literature scan to identify pathways to Medicaid leadership positions, challenges, and opportunities for developing a more diverse pool of future Medicaid executives, and the skills necessary to succeed in these roles.
The Uninsurance Rate Held Steady During the Pandemic as Public Coverage Increased
This brief examines how enrollment gains in public insurance helped offset declines in employer-sponsored insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike previous recessions, the uninsurance rate did not change.
Medicaid Enrollment and Health Equity
This presentation examines the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on historically under-served populations and strategies to increase Medicaid outreach and enrollment within these communities.
That’s Medicaid: Heart Health
This brief highlights the stories of people with heart conditions who have benefited from Medicaid coverage.
Marketplace Pulse: Let’s Close the Coverage Gap
This blog examines the interest in the potential timeline for Medicaid expansion in the remaining states after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act.
Vaccine Equity Strategies: Perspectives from Georgia and West Virginia
This podcast features Lynnette Rhodes, executive director of medical assistance plans at the Georgia Department of Community Health, and Cindy Beane, commissioner at the West Virginia Bureau for Medical Services, discussing leadership challenges and successes they have faced in developing equitable vaccine distribution strategies and the status of their respective states’ vaccine rollout.
That’s Medicaid: Critical Coverage During COVID-19
This brief highlights the stories of people who have benefited from Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medicaid Explained
This presentation outlines the key provisions of the Medicaid program.
Medicaid Research Roundup From Research, Evaluation, and Learning
This report includes a collection of summarized evidence on how Medicaid can improve the health of states' residents and communities.
Federal Policy Recommendations to Advance Health Equity
This series of policy briefs include evidence-based recommendations to help people through the immediate health and economic crises and longer-term recommendations to ensure a fair and just opportunity for health.
That’s Medicaid: When You Provide for a Family (Pennsylvania)
This commentary tells the story of Michael, who supported his family with Medicaid coverage after 26 years as an educator with employer-sponsored insurance.
StateNetwork.org’s Top Ten Resources of 2020
The ten most-visited resources on StateNetwork.org during 2020.
Analyzing Medicaid Managed Care Organizations: State Practices for Contracting with Managed Care Organizations and Oversight of Contractors
This report examines how Medicaid agencies in 40 states select managed care organizations to contract with, how contract terms are set, and how performance is evaluated.
Health Insurance Coverage Declined for Nonelderly Americans Between 2017 and 2018, Leaving Nonexpansion States Further Behind
This report paper serves as a baseline for future measurement of coverage losses during COVID-19.
Marketplace Pulse: The Medicaid Map May Shape Marketplace Entry
This commentary outlines how continuity between Medicaid and the marketplace is more important than ever.
Health Equity Principles for State and Local Leaders in Responding to, Reopening and Recovering from COVID-19
This commentary provides state and local leaders with health equity principles that can serve as a compass to point leaders toward an equitable and lasting COVID-19 recovery.
2020 County Health Rankings Data
The 2020 County Health Rankings highlight how health outcomes and health factors differ by place within states and illustrates how health differs among racial/ethnic groups within places.
Too Much Skin in the Game: Out-of-Pocket Costs May Limit Testing and Treatment of COVID-19
This blog post discusses the challenges and risks associated with implementing cost-sharing requirements for COVID-19 testing and treatment, and the implications that these requirements may have in individuals delaying or avoiding care altogether.
Is There Potential for Public Plans to Reduce Premiums of Competing Insurers?
This report analyzes commercial insurers’ experiences competing in marketplaces with managed care organizations, which only offered coverage within public programs prior to ACA implementation.
Social and Health-System Factors That Affect Health: What’s Known and Knowable?
This literature review provides an overview of the scholarly work on the drivers of health.
What’s the Difference Between Medicaid and Medicare?
This short video explains the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.
An In-Depth Look at the Citizens Who Rely on Medicaid
This short video explains how Medicaid has expanded its coverage to cover roughly 1 in 5 Americans.
The Profound Effect of Medicaid on Children’s Health
This short video explains the effect of Medicaid on children's health.
Power and Opportunity in the States
State policymakers have more flexibility than ever to advance health-promoting policies and programs, and showcase effective strategies from which other states—and the nation as a whole—might learn. RWJF helps inform these efforts through research and analysis, technical assistance and training, and advocacy.
2019 County Health Rankings
The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income inequality, and teen births in nearly every county in America.
Buying Value Measure Selection Tool
This tool includes more than 700 measures and the most up-to-date version of 19 federal and other national measure sets and six state measure sets.
Buying Value Benchmark Repository
This database includes non-HEDIS and modified HEDIS measures in use by state purchasers and regional health improvement collaboratives and associated performance levels.
Medicaid Managed Care: Increasing Expectations and Accountability
This brief reviews considerations for policymakers assessing their state Medicaid managed care programs and exploring strategies for advancing cost, quality, and accountability goals.
Medicaid’s Role in Fighting the Opioid Epidemic
This brief reviews a number of Medicaid strategies states are implementing to prevent and treat substance use disorder and support long-term recovery.
Medicaid’s Role in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
This brief reviews the role that social and economic factors--such as housing, healthy food, and income--play in a “whole person” approach to health care, especially among Medicaid’s low-income enrollees.
Medicaid’s Role in Children’s Health
This brief reviews the opportunities state policymakers have to affect the health—and future well-being and productivity—of their youngest residents through their Medicaid programs.
Medicaid’s Impact on Health Care Access, Outcomes and State Economies
This brief reviews the growing body of research on Medicaid's health and economic impacts, including access to care; self-reported health status; preventive health screenings; delaying care because of costs; hospital and ED utilization; and mortality rates.
Medicaid: The Basics
This brief outlines the basics of the Medicaid program, including financing and eligibility, for new state policymakers in order to lay the groundwork for considering the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Priority Medicaid Issues for New State Officials
This brief highlights priority issues for consideration and potential action, including: the structure of the Medicaid agency; enabling coverage and access; addressing the needs of special populations; and value-based payment policies.
The Policy Surveillance Program
This tool facilitates use of policy surveillance and legal mapping for improving the nation’s health.
Health Impact Project
This project encourages state, local, and national level organizations to include health considerations in policy decisions across multiple sectors, such as housing, transportation, and education. Research shows that the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play influence their health, so the project also works to create cross-sector partnerships that include the expertise of health care and public health systems.
What Works for Health
This tool helps identify policies and programs that are a good fit for community priorities. Analysts review and assess research to rate the effectiveness of a broad variety of strategies (i.e., policies, programs, systems & environmental changes) that can affect health through changes to: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment.
Marketplace Pulse: Mixed Harvest
This report examines the issue that with no individual mandate and expanded non-comprehensive coverage, the divisions between states will deepen, and market conditions will deteriorate for unsubsidized farmers and others seeking coverage in states that don’t protect their risk pool.
Marketplace Pulse: The Unsubsidized Will Always Be With Us
Understanding premium increases for individual market plans is more complicated this year. In many states, carriers attempted to recapture that lost revenue by increasing the premium of the silver plan relative to other metals. ‘Silver-loading’ gives subsidized non-cost-sharing reduction (CSR) consumers the opportunity to purchase a relatively more affordable bronze or gold plan.
Marketplace Pulse: Marketplace Shifts as National Carriers Withdraw
The prospects for these new players reflect tensions for the market as a whole. Clearly the massive number of net exits signals a retrenchment by many market participants in 2018, resulting in shrinking of territorial footprints and outright withdrawal by large parts of the industry. For a variety of reasons, including attempts to repeal the ACA, the potential of the individual market has not yet been fully realized. Yet, it still remains the source of coverage for millions of people.
Marketplace Pulse: Leaky Risk Pools Sink Markets
While there are risks to the stability of their markets that states cannot well control, one important route to adverse market outcomes may be state policy decisions. There are frequent calls for more state flexibility, but these data suggest that the exercise of existing state flexibility is one way that states have visited a considerable amount of trouble upon their markets. Yet there is a hopeful note here as well, since this suggests that there are steps that states can take to improve their situation.
Marketplace Pulse: Bare County Jamboree
The data thus far suggest that most counties will have at least two insurers offering plans on the exchange, and most people will be able to choose from at least three.