This blog discusses Medicaid-funded tobacco cessation services and how federal rules will affect access for enrollees.
This blog shares three strategies for states to improve access to Food Is Medicine interventions in Medicaid through primary care.
This blog discusses recovery community organizations, how they're implemented, and lessons from implementation in Georgia.
This blog discusses single payer estimates, evidence, and potential risks.
This blog discusses how H.R. 1 will affect rural maternal health access and outcomes.
This blog provides an overview of the White House Fraud Ledger and potential drawbacks, including misleading information.
This blog discusses the Senate Finance Committee's request for information to reform U.S. health coverage, and considerations for people with diabetes to help inform policymaking.
This brief discusses the dilemma of rising healthcare spending and a three-part federal policy strategy to constrain drivers of cost growth.
This blog outlines considerations for policymakers and providers seeking to strengthen rural behavioral health through the community-based workforce.
This blog discusses early insights and takeaways from national efforts to reduce youth substance use.
This blog discusses the complex landscape of public health, underlying stressors, and priority actions to support state and territorial readiness.
This blog discusses how to engage stakeholders in the research process and avoid common pitfalls.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covered Paul's kidney transplant and follow-up care, enabling him to get back on his feet and become privately insured.
This blog discusses health insurance rates in the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement report and the impacts on data collection.
This blog discusses the Current Population Survey and potential gaps in data related to child uninsurance rates.
This report examines how Medicaid work reporting requirements will affect rural communities.
This toolkit discusses the evidence behind doula programs, implementation tools, examples of success, and policy considerations for improving maternal and infant health.
This commentary discusses how Medicaid coverage has helped meet Franki's medical needs, such as daily nursing, therapy, and medical equipment for her Down syndrome and chronic conditions.
This blog discusses public awareness of Medicaid work reporting requirements and themes from state outreach efforts.
This blog discusses Head Start, the recent Notice of Proposed Rule Making, and its impact on children and families.
This blog discusses the financial pressures rural hospitals face and how Medicaid cuts will impact access to maternity care.
This publication breaks down the Senate Finance Committee's request for information on health coverage and highlights topic and section considerations for commentors.
This blog discusses how North Dakota addressed its shortage of lead-certified contractors to prevent lead exposure in the state.
This blog reflects on how 9/11 shaped public health preparedness, the lessons learned, and remaining needs.
This commentary shares how health organizations in Oregon partnered to provide Medicaid enrollees with healthy and nutritious foods from local farms.
This blog discusses the impact of federal immigration policy on older adults, people with disabilities, direct care workers, and their families.
This blog shares how states are navigating AI use in healthcare, including legislative action and resources for policymakers.
This blog discusses upcoming changes to the maternity care billing structure and how Medicaid will be impacted in the states.
This blog discusses the declining rate of vaccinations for kindergarteners, reduced mandates on vaccines and reporting, and the implications for disease prevention in the states.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enabled Becky to receive home-based services and access health services and medications for her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
This blog shares perspectives from women, healthcare providers, policymakers, and advocates to understand how location impacts reproductive healthcare experiences, with fact sheets from 13 states.
This blog discusses state readiness for implementing Medicaid work reporting requirements based on Q1 2026 data.
This blog discusses health coverage trends for children under three, noting an increase of 113,000 uninsured infants and toddlers from 2022-2024.
This blog discusses healthcare ownership transparency, why it matters, and federal bills and policy considerations to improve oversight.
This blog discusses what government AI policies share and the public health gaps they leave unaddressed.
This blog discusses new estimates finding that the Medicare Cost Cap Act's $5,000 cap would lower cost-sharing for more than 4 million enrollees while adding $36.2 billion to Medicare spending in one year.
This blog discusses how, in 28 states and D.C., all or nearly all custodial parents and caretaker relatives should be shielded from the work reporting requirements and why states should communicate that now.
This blog discusses how an executive order threatens children's health amid the worst measles outbreak in decades and challenges states' longstanding authority over vaccine policy.
This blog discusses a proposal for a "Fair Pay, Fair Play" TPA to compete with dominant insurer TPAs.
This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores how senior leadership teams can strengthen their collective capacity to address the challenges of leading a Medicaid agency.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and National Association of Medicaid Directors interviewed two members of the National Committee for Sustainable Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships to explore New Hampshire’s Medicaid-public health partnership and its impact on the state’s population.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enables Nicholas to live a full and independent life with autism by covering essential services, such as transportation to work.
This article discusses the impact analysis of the new federal rule on Medicaid work requirements, citing discrepancies in coverage loss and employment gain estimates from other projections.
This blog discusses CMS' interim final rule on medical frailty and identifies challenges enrollees and states will likely face to identify exemptions from new Medicaid work requirements.
This blog discusses the recent voter rejection of two new Missouri ballot measures and the implications for other state legislatures, such as South Dakota.
This blog discusses hospital outpatient billing and state and federal action for reform, such as facility fee bans and billing transparency.
This podcast features Medicaid leaders from Idaho, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as they share how their lived experience informs policy and program decisions.
This toolkit provides four key strategies to strengthen the Medicaid leadership pipeline.
This blog discusses public health leaders' approaches to successfully progressing data modernization in U.S. territories and freely associated states, which differs from mainland approaches.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covers everyday services for Juan as he navigates living with cerebral palsy and working part-time.
This blog discusses declines in fatal drug overdose rates, including variations and trends by state and drug type.
This blog discusses U.S. drug overdose rates, breaking down data by drug, demographic, and education.
This blog discusses employer-sponsored insurance rates, highlighting significant increases in premiums for family and individual plans.
This blog discusses how the federal ban on "noise confusion" will impact Census data and health policy research.
This blog discusses the status of CMS Medicaid deferrals in California and Minnesota.
This blog summarizes the "MediKids Act," a bill proposed by Senator Kim to provide healthcare coverage for all children in the United States.
This blog discusses CMS' 2022-2025 report on NSA compliance and enforcement, highlighting the NSA effectively shields from surprise bills and potentially decreases out-of-pocket costs.
This blog discusses what essential health benefits are, their protections, and future rulemaking.
While states are expanding diabetes care, this blog notes that there are still barriers to accessing life-changing technologies.
This resource tracks terminated AHRQ grants and the states, people, and communities impacted.
This commentary shares how Medicaid served as a backstop to Latrice's healthcare coverage so that her baby could receive heart surgery and other needed care during her first year of life.
This blog discusses how federal policy changes are anticipated to impact hospitals across five key areas: Medicaid eligibility and enrollment policy, state Medicaid payments and financing, Marketplace policy, immigration policy, and the Rural Health Transformation Program.
This blog explores Minnesota residents' concerns about losing coverage from 2019 to 2025, by coverage type.
This blog provides an overview of the definition of chronic disease, chronic illness and chronic condition, risk factors, and prevalence in the United States, nationally, by state and by subpopulation.
This blog examines CMS' proposed rule on provider taxes and how it will affect state Medicaid spending.
This blog discusses DHS' recent final rule on public charge and its impact on the health and wellbeing of lawfully present immigrants and their children.
This blog discusses Data Marketing Partnership v. Department of Labor and the impact a settlement could have on consumer coverage, individual market premiums, and state insurance oversight.
This blog shares how Medicaid directors in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin are creating intentional practices that foster a culture that values member feedback and turns listening into action.
This podcast shares lessons from Kentucky Medicaid leaders to implement policy by leveraging relationships, information-sharing, and practical tools.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enabled John in New York to afford necessary treatments for his chronic conditions, including HIV, lupus, diabetes, and heart challenges.
This blog shares findings from a survey to better understand differential treatment in healthcare settings, finding nearly half of all Minnesota residents experienced healthcare discrimination.
This blog discusses how public health agencies can partner with communities to prevent and address drivers of youth substance abuse, with examples.
This report discusses the work requirements exclusion for pregnant or postpartum women and how to keep them covered.
This report reviews the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' interim final work requirement rule, including which states are subject to it and implementation guidelines.
This blog discusses CMS' interim final rule on medical frailty and its impact on those with substance-use disorders and mental health conditions.
This blog discusses opportunities to expand access to CHWs through Medicaid and Medicare coverage, with a state example.
This podcast convenes Medicaid directors to discuss effective implementation of technology in Medicaid to further program goals.
This blog discusses Colorado's statewide suicide prevention program and its funding, evaluation, and promising results.
This blog discusses coverage trends for new mothers from 2019 through 2024 due to federal and state policy changes, such as Medicaid unwinding and postpartum coverage extensions from COVID-19.
This blog discusses Medicaid provider revalidation and how states like Minnesota are screening providers.
This blog discusses the challenges affecting rural Medicaid enrollees who rely on local mail delivery that could face compliance challenges with Medicaid work reporting requirements.
This blog discusses healthcare transaction oversight and specific state strategies for oversight authority.
This blog analyzes the request for information and outlines EHB considerations.
This blog discusses the cyclosporiasis outbreak, its symptoms and treatment, the public health response, and guidance for prevention.
This blog analyzes effective public health communications on STIs and opportunities for improvement.
This blog discusses the workforce landscape within public health preparedness and policy and funding considerations for staff retention.
This blog discusses where state health agencies can help prevent adverse childhood experiences by utilizing data.
This blog discusses the state variation in Medicaid HBCS Waivers and strategies to advocate for waiver services.
This commentary discusses how Medicaid covered Sarah's prenatal care after she was diagnosed with a pre-existing condition and enabled her to finish school and become employed full-time.
This blog discusses reproductive healthcare access in the United States, with 13 state factsheets on challenges impacting reproductive healthcare access.
This blog discusses the importance of NIS data and 2024 flu vaccination trends for children.
This blog discusses how National Academy for State Health Policy's model legislation can assist states in referencing Medicare maximum fair prices for market reimbursement rates and savings on prescription drugs.
This blog discusses how states have approached implementing H.R.1 policies, including adoption of work reporting requirements and changes to immigrant eligibility.
This blog discusses CMS' interim final rule regarding medical frailty and the recent complaint states have filed to prevent the implementation of its provisions.
This blog discusses the success of the CCBHC Medicaid demonstration, the ten newly added states, and the potential impacts of H.R.1.
This blog discusses how states and children's advocates can protect young children from losing health coverage.
This blog discusses the new federal guidance regarding budget neutrality requirement for Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations.
This blog explains medical-dental integration, the policy landscape, and what it can look like in practice.
This blog discusses evidence-based approaches for fall prevention with state examples of implementation.
This blog discusses learnings from states that are making progress in reducing the rates of overdose deaths and expanding access to recovery services.
This commentary shares how Maryland's Medicaid buy-in program enabled Nicole, who has autism spectrum disorder and other health challenges, to receive dental care.
This blog discusses potential challenges to and the fate of the Johnson Amendment and the impact on public health.
This blog discusses the CMS' interim rule on work reporting requirements and discrepancies in medical frailty definitions.
This blog discusses the large decline in CHIP enrollment and the ten states experiencing the largest absolute declines.
This blog provides an overview CMS' updated guidance for EPSDT, what it covers, and its limitations.
This blog provides initial 2027 proposed Marketplace rate increases and discusses insurance carrier exits and federal policies that have impacted these rates.
This blog discusses telehealth's role in expanding access to school-based health interventions, including care models and considerations for policy and funding.
This blog discusses the current Medicaid drug landscape and how leaders can navigate shifting pharmacy strategies in Medicaid.
This blog discusses the structural barriers to oral health and opportunities to leverage Medicaid to expand access to rural communities.
This podcast discusses how Medicaid directors and legislators can partner to address Medicaid complexity.
This blog provides insights on AI implementation in public health departments based on findings from Minnesota's Department of Health.
This blog is a nonpartisan examination of federal Medicaid work requirements, Medicaid frailty exemptions, and the impact on coverage loss and employment outcomes.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief analyzes the difficulties working-age adults and their families are experiencing using data from a nationally representative survey focused on wellbeing and basic needs.
This podcast shares insights from Medicaid directors on how to prioritize core responsibilities, smoothly transition leadership, and keep enrollees at the center of their work.
This blog discusses how the National Diabetes Prevention Program can be leveraged to prevent diabetes and manage care costs for Medicaid enrollees.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enables Sonia to care for her adoptive son who experiences developmental disabilities and requires testing, therapy, and other health services to remain healthy.
This blog discusses the importance of education and healthcare sectors on U.S. economies and how they can be leveraged to advance community goals.
This blog utilizes state data to explain the intersection of housing affordability and health outcomes.
This blog discusses the climbing rate of uninsurance for children under six and how children and families may be impacted by new federal and state policies.
This blog discusses the proposed and final Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters for 2027 and its impact on insurance regulators and Marketplaces.
This blog discusses Massachusetts Medicaid (MassHealth) implemented a primary care population-based payment model to improve patients’ experience and quality of care.
This toolkit provides a guide for local leaders to assess and identify their communities’ high-priority tracts and lay the groundwork for implementing local policies and programs to drive impactful opportunity zone investments.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covers primary care, dental visits, and immunizations for Regina's daughter when Regina was underemployed.
This blog discusses the importance of broadband internet access as work requirements are implemented, and programs that address the digital divide.
This blog explains the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule regarding state directed and fee-for-service payments.
This blog discusses the implications of the drop in child enrollment to Medicaid and CHIP and how it compares to previous years.
This blog shares how Kentucky's public health agencies established collaborative relationships with healthcare partners to better respond to public health emergencies.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enabled Nancy to access and afford healthcare when she was forced to leave home while still in high school.
This blog summarizes NASEM's report, including high priority services and recommendations for federal action to reduce pregnancy-related cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
This blog discusses how Kansas legislature updated state law to fix the CHIP household income eligibility threshold and ensure health coverage for eligible children.
This blog discusses United Health Group, Elevance, CVSHealth/Aetna, and Centene enrollment data, reporting an average 3.8% decline in Medicaid enrollment for the first quarter.
This blog discusses the CMS deferral process and the large-scale deferral of California's Medicaid funding, comparing to Minnesota's pending deferral.
This blog discusses hantavirus, its risk to the public, the health response, and the role of state and local health departments in infectious disease outbreaks.
This blog discusses the success of Health Data for Action, such as supporting data integration and contributing to policy discussions.
This commentary tells the story of John and Bernie, who both turned to Medicaid after losing their jobs when Bernie needed medical care following a heart attack.
This blog explains the differences between telehealth, telemedicine, and telecare and the benefits and limitations of virtual care.
This blog discusses the impact of work reporting requirements on child enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP and potential drawbacks of early implementation in states like Arkansas, Montana, and Nebraska.
This blog shares states' progress on notifying residents of Medicaid work reporting requirements.
This blog explains vertical integration; its impact on consumers, employers, and clinicians; and federal bills designed to reduce market concentration.
This factsheet discusses Food Is Medicine services in Medicaid and opportunities for state and federal policy.
This blog discusses utilizing early intervention support services also known as coordinated specialty care to reduce symptoms, improve quality of life, and promote recovery for early-episode psychosis.
This blog discusses the value and impact of community-led research on meeting specific community needs and elevating lived experiences for change.
This blog discusses the research that helped implement actionable policy for monthly insulin caps for Medicare patients, improving access to diabetes care and affordability.
This commentary shares how Medicaid coverage enables Nicholas to work, participate in his community, and receive necessary services for his autism spectrum disorder.
This blog shares findings from the National Health Interview Survey, including rates of uninsurance and insurance.
This blog discusses strategies to alleviate some of the H.R.1 funding cuts and ensure children maintain access to Medicaid and food assistance through school programs.
This blog examines public comments from healthcare providers, hospital associations, physician organizations, and safety-net providers submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters.
This blog discusses various ways health departments can use wastewater surveillance to track and protect community health, such as the detection of arboviruses.
This webinar discusses utilizing a "no wrong door" approach to close gaps on substance-use treatment for Medicaid enrollees.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covers a daily caregiver, a wheelchair, and other equipment for Ben, who was born with cerebral palsy, and enables him to live independently and advocate for people with disabilities.
This blog examines public comments from consumer and patient advocate organizations submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters.
This publication discusses what a doula is and how doula care can support birthing people.
This brief discusses the benefits of Medicaid on the health and wellbeing of everyone and offers policy recommendations for states to preserve access to preventive and life-saving care.
This dashboard now provides life expectancy estimates at the city level from 2012 through 2023, including breakdowns by key demographic groups, to help shape policies that promote longer, healthier lives.
This article evaluates the State of Alabama Infant Mortality Reduction Initiative and shares public health implications to effectively close the infant mortality gap.
This article provides an overview of the Support and Services at Home program, analyzes its effectiveness in improving the health of older adults, and offers recommendations for implementation.
This article analyzes the effect of Medicaid expansion on noncitizen adults in California.
This commentary shares how Medicaid coverage enables Maddy, who was born with Asperger syndrome, work two part-time jobs.
This blog analyzes T-MSIS race and ethnicity data and indicates levels of concern by state.
This blog discusses hardship exemptions and the process for states to offer them to those living in areas with high unemployment rates as they implement work requirements.
This blog discusses the renewed ACIP charter and the changes it implements to the committee.
This blog examines public comments state departments of insurance, state-based Marketplaces, and other representative associations submitted to CMS in regard to the proposed 2027 rule.
This blog discusses the Consolidated Appropriations Act, its effect, and the new national provider identifier requirement.
This factsheet discusses how integrating community health workers into Medicaid—which covers nearly half of all children in the U.S.—can help close gaps in care.
This commentary tells the story of Matthew, who was born with Down syndrome and whose Medicaid coverage helps him to live an independent life.
This blog explains and tracks forgone care from 2021 through 2024.
This blog discusses birthright citizenship, Trump v. Barbara, and its impact on access to care for newborns who qualify for Medicaid.
This blog discusses Minnesota v. Oz and the impact of the federal decision on Minnesota and other states.
This blog discusses Medicaid fraud and ongoing state efforts to mitigate it.
This blog offers opportunities for states to expand access to continuous glucose monitors.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enabled Robert to recover from addiction and receive mental healthcare services.
This brief analyzes disruptions to lawfully-present immigrant families' participation in essential services and immigrant-related concerns.
This blog outlines how parents and caretakers under Section 1931 will be impacted by Medicaid work reporting requirements.
This blog discusses the importance of protecting pregnant and postpartum women when developing work requirement exemption processes and recommendations for states.
This blog explains the drivers for site-neutrality payment reform and offers four domains to develop site-neutral policy.
This blog examines public comments health insurers, brokers, and other stakeholders submitted to CMS in regard to the proposed 2027 rule.
In this blog post, Georgetown Center on Health Insurance Reforms researchers provide context about recent federal price transparency efforts and summarize the major changes being proposed in the new Transparency in Coverage amendment.
This blog post offers an early look at publicly available IDR data from the first two quarters of 2025.
This blog post shares how North Dakota's medical cache and cross-sector partnerships strengthen healthcare readiness and support response efforts across a largely rural state.
This blog post shares the importance of administrative readiness and key strategies leaders can use to respond to public health issues.
This blog discusses Pima County, AZ's journey to data modernization and offers lessons for other health departments working to strengthen relationships with IT partners.
In this report, Urban Institute researchers estimated coverage changes under three potential scenarios, in which states adopt policy and implementation choices involving high, medium, and low mitigation of coverage losses among eligible adults who are meeting work requirements or exempt.
In the lead up to the November 5th application deadline, Georgetown's Center for Children and Families explored how the RHT program can help states fund maternal health initiatives.
his blog shares a fact sheet explaining how 2027 NBPP proposals intersect with existing statutory requirements and recent judicial decisions.
This blog discusses how recent state legislative policies supporting ACEs prevention strategies address upstream issues by promoting stable housing, improving the environment in which children live, and implementing teacher training policies.
This brief summarizes findings from California's Guaranteed Income Pilot Program, which provides monthly guaranteed income through seven pilot sites focused either on foster youth aging out of care or low-income pregnant women in the state.
In this brief, Urban Institute uses data from its Wellbeing and Basic Needs Survey to estimate the share of adults experiencing household food insecurity in 2025 and assess changes in household food insecurity among working-age adults between 2019 and 2025.
This blog looks at states' targeted primary care priorities in their Rural Health Transformation program applications and outlines key themes in state plans.
This blog post highlights how strengthening the CHW workforce and reimbursing CHW services covered by Medicaid using new federal funds can contribute to improving healthcare in rural areas.
This blog posts tracks Medicaid-related bills that are under consideration in ten state legislative sessions.
This blog post highlights the decrease in prenatal care during the first trimester from 2021-2024 and takes a look at the state of prenatal care in Florida, Virginia, and New Hampshire.
This blog post discusses how non-network plans would violate ACA requirements and destabilize marketplaces, leaving consumers with fewer and more expensive coverage options.
This blog post discusses the Association of State and Territorial Health Official's nine-month learning collaborative, which offered support to help island health departments strengthen their workforce planning efforts.
This commentary tells the story of Jamie, whose daughter was born with a genetic syndrome that led to complex medical needs.
This blog shows how Pennsylvania improved youth mental health with steps other states can replicate.
This blog discusses trends in Medicare Advantage spending and selection in comparison to traditional Medicare.
This blog discusses the increase in Minnesota's uninsurance rate from 2023 through 2025, highlighting the disparities and concerns in coverage.
This blog discusses surprise bills for ambulatory services and recommends reforms to address it.
This blog outlines how community-based organizations can best support Medicaid Beneficiary Advisory Councils and considerations for engaging with community partners.
This factsheet provides an overview of both programs and opportunities to improve integration for dually eligible enrollees.
This blog discusses the importance of Community Impact Statements, tips for writing them, and common challenges.
This story tells how Medicaid supplemented Gene's health coverage after an accident left him quadriplegic at age 17.
This blog discusses the major policies that could go into effect for the 2027 plan year, the changes outlined in CMS' proposed rule, and other considerations for states.
This blog explains Medicare reimbursement for hospitals with varying classifications and current policy debates at the state and federal level.
This blog discusses how states are approaching medical debt and protecting patients from financial harm.
This blog discusses the cost of measles outbreaks, their impacts on public health agencies, and prevention strategies.
This blog highlights Medicaid/CHIP enrollment by state as well as trends for children, adults, and Medicaid expansion adults where applicable.
This blog post reviews the status of SOGI data in federal surveys and programs.
This blog explains the key differences between FPG and FPL guidelines and provides the current values of the two based on family size and household makeup.
This blog shares findings of CHW cost-effectiveness captured from South Dakota's analysis of Medicaid claims data.
Despite federal assurances that people with disabilities enrolled in Medicaid will not lose or experience coverage changes as a result of H.R.1, some states expect service disruptions. This blog shares survey insights into how states are preparing for potential funding reductions to disability services and where they anticipate challenges.
This blog shares approaches that public health agencies are using to better manage public health grants, including reorganizing or centralizing grants management practices; replacing manual or paper grant processes with electronic systems; and improving processes, oversight, and subgrantee monitoring.
This commentary shares how Medicaid enables Susie's daughter Tymia to have access to prescription drugs and life-saving surgeries for her sickle cell disease.
This blog discusses the potential topics of the upcoming State of the Union and the problem impacting healthcare affordability.
This blog discusses the importance of community health workers and how they are incorporated in states' Rural Health Transformation Plans, with state examples.
This blog offers a variety of reforms and strategies for state policymakers to use in healthcare affordability efforts such as billing regulation and price transparency.
This blog discusses states' development of multisector plans on aging to meet consumer needs as reconciliation's changes go into effect.
This brief discusses the policy changes in CMS' proposed rule for Marketplaces, including impacts on state insurance departments.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog outlines strategies leaders can employ to reduce or eliminate healthcare performance gaps.
This report provides new evidence about Denver's programs to better serve people in crisis, including their reach, opportunities to scale services, cost implications, and the first quantification of individual-level criminal justice outcomes for people in the year after they interact with the programs.
This blog announces the launch of the National Academy for State Health Policy's legislative healthcare cost and payment reform tracking for the year.
This blog shares the impact and limitations of cost-growth benchmarks and recommendations for states to contain healthcare prices and improve affordability.
This brief provides recommendations to help states establish the administrative infrastructure needed to implement RHTP plans.
This commentary shares how Valerie and her husband Christopher were able to adopt and support their two sons with challenging health conditions because of Medicaid's coverage of their medications and other treatment.
This blog discusses the importance of Medicare-covered telehealth services and the benefits of extending coverage of these services.
This brief discusses the CARE Act and its impact on PTCs and healthcare affordability.
This blog discusses CMS negotiation of Medicare Maximum Fair Prices and its impact on state healthcare spending.
This blog discusses the effectiveness of mobile health and how states plan on implementing mobile health initiatives in their Rural Health Transformation Program applications.
This blog highlights why aligning coverage with evidence-based standards matters for better health outcomes.
This blog discusses potential approaches public health agencies may consider when developing or refining regulations for newly legalized substances.
This blog provides a TAF Analysis Reporting Checklist to assist researchers in conducting and reporting studies using TAF data.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covered LaVerne's prenatal care while she pursued her bachelor's degree in nursing, allowing her to focus on finishing her education.
This blog discusses the House Republican Study Committee's plan proposals, such as delaying Medicaid/CHIP coverage where citizenship status is not initially available and prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
This blog discusses Marketplace enrollment declines and the impact on healthcare affordability.
This blog provides state Medicaid agencies with an at-a-glance overview of the CMS Innovation Center's models including target populations, implications for Medicaid, and more.
This blog discusses federal health data preservation efforts and shares examples of data resources currently filling the gaps.
This blog discusses state opportunities, trends, expenditures, and enrollment for Medicaid long-term services rebalancing to shift toward home- and community-based services.
This blog discusses ways states are considering alternate payment models to strengthen primary care for people enrolled in Medicaid.
This blog discusses the importance of elimination status and response strategies for public health agencies to prevent the spread of measles.
This blog discusses two recently announced federal programs aimed at lowering prescription drug prices, their goals, and considerations for states.
This blog discusses federal vaccine recommendations and how states are ensuring access to preventive care.
This blog discusses the key changes to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and its implementation in federal and state programs.
This blog proposes three ways to improve health departments' safety efforts to prevent dialysis-related infections.
This blog shares two leadership models that policy professionals and health leaders can utilize to support teams and navigate ambiguity.
This dashboard includes customizable city maps to assess health data for wards, precincts, school districts, and other city tracts.
This blog discusses the impact of peer support workers and recommendations for embedding and supporting them across care settings.
This blog discusses how state investment into home- and community-based services can enable children and youth with behavioral health needs to thrive.
This blog discusses key themes from state RHT Program applications, program awards, and next steps.
This blog discusses two key data sources to inform policy decisions: the Household Pulse Survey and the Household Trends and Outlook Survey.
This report discusses how guaranteed income in Georgia enabled women to meet basic needs and navigate structural barriers to essential services, healthcare, and food.
This article examines the link between felony disenfranchisement laws and health inequities for women.
This brief analyzes the reasons for the sharp increase in Marketplace premiums, including medical trends, the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits, and policy changes.
This report assesses the disparities in prescription and receipt of asthma medications between Black and White Medicaid-enrolled children.
The Patients Deserve Price Transparency Act aims to improve billing-related information, increase employer access to sponsored health plan information, and build on existing federal transparency regulations.
This blog explains the impact of prior authorization on healthcare spending and discusses federal and state policy actions for reform.
This blog discusses existing protections and other policy reforms state policymakers can consider to protect consumers from costly and unpredictable facility fees.
This blog provides state examples of utilizing Medicaid intermediaries to support the infrastructure and capacity of community-based organizations.
This blog discusses Congressional proposals to extend or replace the enhanced premium tax credits and implications for consumers.
This blog explains the Wraparound approach for care planning and coordination for children, youth, and their families.
This blog discusses state actions following ACIP's recent recommendations for birth dose hepatitis B vaccinations, and considerations if the CDC adopts those recommendations.
This report shares estimates for enrollment and cost savings if states removed income and asset thresholds to allow people with disabilities to retain Medicaid coverage while receiving increased earnings from employment.
This brief estimates the effects on coverage and healthcare spending if Medicare eligibility is eliminated for people ages 65 through 66.
This blog shares six questions for federal policymakers to consider as the Administration prepares to release its proposal for extending the enhanced premium tax credits.
This blog discusses premature death data and the strengths and limitations of utilizing it as a public health measure.
This blog shares state approaches for successful hospital price regulation to curtail spending growth and improve healthcare affordability.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This article analyzes state consumer protection policies to determine whether they reduce medical debt in credit reports.
This blog documents the expected 2025 data releases from various federal health-related surveys and the data's current status.
This blog shares state approaches for hospital oversight, including price regulation and ownership transparency, to examine opportunities for healthcare affordability.
This blog discusses how PACE can be utilized to support rural communities.
This blog discusses state and federal policies that impact telehealth services.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses barriers to mental healthcare, such as cost barriers, with a state example.
This blog guides policymakers on how to craft effective reforms to reduce hospital prices.
This blog discusses the impact of health insurance versus paying for 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.
This report uses data from 45 states and stakeholder interviews to recommend policy actions for state Medicaid agencies when using AI.
This blog explains opioid use disorder, medications, and considerations for access to care.
This blog discusses recent federal health policies and their effect on enrollment, health costs, and Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements.
This blog offers three steps for states to integrate evaluation processes into Beneficiary Advisory Council efforts.
This blog discusses the impact of partnering with birthing hospitals to prevent RSV in infants through the Vaccines for Children program.
This blog discusses how to enhance state partnerships, leverage data, and strengthen messaging to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences and improve health outcomes.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This report examines HealthCare4ChildCare and its successes, challenges, and early outcomes.
This brief estimates parents' and children's reliance on Marketplace coverage to assess the impact of the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits.
This blog offers four strategies to address the health coverage gap for childcare workers.
This blog discusses the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act and the strategies it uses to address certain healthcare challenges.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses the state of child mental health and the benefits of early childhood mental health consultation.
This blog analyzes health insurance coverage data, highlighting an increase in uninsurance for children in low-income households.
This blog discusses trends in state Medicaid approaches, legislation, and community health worker policies.
This blog shares insights on monitoring outpatient facility fees with state examples.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses new changes to Marketplace enrollment and coverage due to federal policies, including reduced eligibility, affordability, and enrollment assistance.
This blog discusses the effects of not extending the enhanced premium tax credits, such as increased premiums and coverage losses.
This blog offers strategies for improving Medicaid services for people with disabilities to reduce disparities.
This blog discusses how to deploy CHW-led interventions in pediatric 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.
This analysis examines trends in MA insurer concentration from 2013 to 2023 and its relation to MA payments and plan characteristics.
This blog highlights six lessons from listening sessions with CAB members and Urban researchers for other organizations seeking to partner with or strengthen a community advisory board.
This brief shares opportunities for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid to support work requirements implementation and facilitate continuous access to food and coverage.
This blog examines how Vermont's health department, and other agencies facing evolving funding and technology opportunities, can leverage the state's Data Modernization Advisory Committee to prioritize projects and communicate with partners about data modernization efforts.
This blog discuss the administrative hurdles to accessing marketplace coverage imposed by H.R.1 and the Marketplace Integrity and Affordability rule, which are expected to increase the number of uninsured people living in the United States.
This blog post explores how states are expanding access to continuous glucose monitoring for pregnant people.
This blog shares strategies the Environmental Health Disease Prevention Program implemented to strengthen its food safety program and adopt its first FDA Food Code.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief estimates reductions in healthcare spending and increased rates of uncompensated care if enhanced premium tax credits expire.
This brief explores how agents and brokers may influence Medicare enrollment and identifies gaps in oversight.
This brief provides findings on Medicaid-covered dental visits and dental-related emergency department visits during pregnancy and one year postpartum.
This interactive map tracks uninsurance rates at the state and county level for 2024.
This blog discusses the implications of the 2025 SCOTUS ruling on coverage of preventive services.
This blog shares perspectives from and strategies employed in North Dakota, Washington, and West Virginia to improve access to care in rural communities.
This blog discusses care models to help address and manage depression in older adults.
This blog focuses on strengthening existing public health systems through measuring progress, collaborating, and mobilizing stakeholders.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This report estimates coverage losses if ePTCs are not extended.
This blog tracks state activity related to the Rural Health Transformation Program.
This blog explains how partnerships between state agencies can improve Medicaid work requirements implementation.
This blog offers strategies for recruitment and outreach for Medicaid Beneficiary Advisory Councils.
This blog discusses challenges and strategies for integrating community voice and engagement into the development of Medicaid policies.
This blog discusses the value of community partnerships in creating proactive approaches that minimize harm, prevent the spread of disease, and promote public health.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog explains the importance of data in creating effective, evidence-based policy.
This blog discusses the federal, child and adolescent health surveys and their importance in developing public health solutions and addressing emerging concerns.
This blog discusses establishing legislation for hospital consolidation oversight with a state example.
This blog shares best practices for improving procurement, accountability, and collaboration through the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
This blog explains how Tennessee and Connecticut are using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant to advance public health.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog shares forward-looking extreme weather preparedness policies that could boost community resilience, protect public health, and modernize emergency responses across the United States.
This blog discusses a new report from Georgetown's Center for Children and Families, which analyzes states' compliance with certain Medicaid performance indicators to assess their readiness for implementing work requirements and provisions in the budget reconciliation bill.
This blog discusses how enrollees will face higher premiums and cost-sharing responsibilities should enhanced premium tax credits expire following the budget reconciliation bill's passage.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses data's role in creating policy change for insulin costs and shares recommendations for researchers.
This blog discusses expanding children's access to preventive services through Medicaid and school-based health services.
This blog discusses opportunities for states to connect enrollees with employment and supports to maintain coverage.
This blog describes the Rural Health Transformation Program, its requirements, and recommendations for states.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief provides findings about perceptions of FIM programs, including the program aspects respondents value the most.
This blog discusses the unique disparities LGBTQ+ community members face and the importance of data to improve health outcomes.
This brief discusses how Medicaid can help community health workers improve child health and wellbeing.
This blog explains the importance of public data collection and offers opportunities to fill data gaps.
This blog explains common health insurance terminology to improve consumer understanding.
This blog discusses the major Marketplace changes included in the reconciliation law and their impact.
This blog provides strategies to strengthen Beneficiary Advisory Councils with state examples.
This blog explores how healthcare markets shift with increased pricing transparency and its implications.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog explains how OBBB cuts will affect Medicaid coverage for adults ages 18 to 24.
This brief provides findings for unmet subclinical health needs and presents strategies to reduce barriers to care.
This blog explains the role of ownership transparency in healthcare with state examples.
This blog offers public health strategies to improve Black maternal health outcomes.
This blog explores state and federal actions to address the MAHA Commission's top drivers of chronic disease.
This blog discusses how to bridge gaps between data providers and researchers to make health data more 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.
This blog discusses the impact of the reconciliation bill on families that utilize both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
This blog discusses the progression of the Medicaid program in recognition of its 60th anniversary.
This blog shares the budget reconciliation's effect on diabetes coverage and treatment.
This blog explains Kentucky's removal of dental care from its proposed benchmark update, likely due to increased costs.
This brief outlines strategies states can use to partner with Medicaid members and CBOs in implementing work requirement policies that reflect community input.
This fact sheet summarizes national Medicaid work requirements, its implementation, and exemptions.
This blog discusses the recent CMS initiative to modernize public health data, how it impacts health data, and potential challenges.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog provides background on price transparency implementation and updates for health systems.
This blog provides strategies for state Medicaid agencies and primary care providers to improve access to disability-competent care.
This blog discusses the process of creating interjurisdictional immunization information system data exchange.
This blog discusses price transparency rules, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief provides potential 10-year cost and enrollment estimates following enactment of the DUALS Act.
This webinar shares how state leaders are tackling behavioral health challenges and using Medicaid to improve high quality care in their state.
This blog discusses how partnerships between communities and New Jersey county officials increased support for local behavioral health needs.
This blog discusses data collection modernization and its role in increasing disability data.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses the key health provisions in the reconciliation bill and its implications.
This blog discusses the rise in use of independent resolution and its outcomes.
This blog discusses changes to CMS' Marketplace eligibility and enrollment systems.
This blog shares opportunities for states to leverage Medicaid to improve behavioral healthcare and outcomes.
This podcast features insights from former Medicaid directors on running state Medicaid programs and approaches to leadership.
This blog offers strategies to assist public health agencies as they prepare for and respond to emergencies.
This blog includes an interactive map for variations in dental coverage in health marketplaces across states.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses the impact of the reconciliation bill and the expiration enhanced premium tax credits on rural hospitals.
This blog tracks state estimates for State-Based Marketplaces based on federal policy changes.
This blog provides findings for uninsurance rates and rates for private and public coverage in 2023 and 2024.
This blog provides survey results on resident perceptions of the Minnesota Medicaid program.
This blog provides an analysis of independent dispute resolution trends and potential implications for future use.
This podcast discusses how stakeholders have shaped Medicaid throughout the years.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog explains countercyclical policies and its effect on Medicaid and economic spending.
This blog provides updated data on access to and use of healthcare services in 2023.
This blog discusses how federal policy changes and the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits are affecting 2026 insurance rates.
This blog compares the House and Senate budget reconciliation proposals for Marketplace enrollment.
This blog discusses strategies for effective public health communications to gain support from communities and policymakers.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief analyzes proposed changes in the reconciliation bill and provides state-by-state estimates of Marketplace enrollment.
This brief provides state-level estimates on uncompensated care and healthcare spending based on the reconciliation bill and Congressional Budget Office updated projections.
This blog summarizes Indiana's recently passed legislation and how it improves healthcare cost transparency.
This blog provides strategies for state health agencies to reduce barriers to vaccination.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief considers the budget reconciliation bill’s implications for expansion enrollees with unstable employment and adults who experience job loss or instability before enrolling in Medicaid.
This blog examines the potential impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case, which will determine whether people enrolled in Medicaid can sue to enforce the "free choice of provider" provision.
This blog discusses the single policy clarification related to broker accountability in CMS’ Marketplace integrity proposal and identified straight-forward, yet thus-far overlooked, ways to curtail broker misconduct.
This blog discusses the benefits of forming Academic Health Department partnerships between public health practice and academic institutions and recommendations for building a shared vision through statewide collaborations.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This report shares data on 2025 premiums in the ACA Marketplaces and the growth in these premiums since 2019.
This blog tracks state-specific impacts of proposed Medicaid cuts included in the reconciliation bill.
This blog shares the rationale behind the new administration's funding cuts and highlights the gravity of reducing the Navigator program and outreach and enrollment assistance.
This blog profiles Marketplace enrollees who would face obstacles in maintaining Marketplace coverage if the reconciliation bill becomes law.
This blog discusses current efforts to preserve and restore public data and advocacy recommendations for saving the future of federal datasets.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog provides continuous updates on state impacts for federal spending proposals, including the One Beautiful Bill Act.
This report offers recommendations and early key takeaways from Georgia's Medicaid postpartum coverage extension.
This report examines difficulties for immigrant families that affect their access to healthcare and basic needs programs.
This report assesses the implications of eliminating Medicaid expansion in Ohio if federal proposals for spending reductions become law.
This blog discusses potential policies slated for the budget reconciliation package, which limit enrollment and increase administrative barriers.
This blog addresses rising concerns of TPA practices and how policymakers can intervene.
This podcast analyzes the founding collaboration of Medicaid and how to better leverage it to benefit enrollees.
This blog offers strategies to provide updates and answer questions in public health communications.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog examines the effects of bi-annual Medicaid redeterminations on enrollees, including reducing enrollees’ access to care, adding to enrollees’ paperwork hassles, and increasing administrative costs for state Medicaid agencies, health plans, and providers.
This blog discusses how the House of Representatives' May 2025 reconciliation bill would cause roughly 3 in 10 young adults ages 18 to 24 insured through Medicaid to lose coverage.
This blog uses state survey data to provide findings and recommendations on healthcare and insurance costs.
This blog discusses how potential Medicaid policy changes will impact young adults with diabetes as they transition from their parents' coverage.
This blog pinpoints stakeholder challenges with price data and offers strategies to improve them.
This blog discusses the importance of community stories and lived experiences in systems change and reproductive care research.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses the effects of medical debt on public health and tracks state efforts to reduce medical debt and/or prohibit reporting.
This podcast explores how state health officials are partnering with North Dakota families to improve programs for children with disabilities and their families.
This blog serves as a guidance to help public health agencies understand digital accessibility basics and promote accessible communications for the disability community.
This blog discusses resources Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health developed to improve subrecipient monitoring.
This blog discusses innovative crowdsourcing efforts that have emerged as a result of the new administration's modifications to or removal of public health surveillance data.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog shares state Marketplace enrollment data and the impact of premium tax credits.
This blog documents comments from insurance brokers, healthcare providers, consumers, state Marketplaces, and departments of insurance on CMS' proposed "Marketplace Integrity" rule.
This blog discusses oral health and the importance of collaboration to prevent oral diseases.
This blog tracks state-specific impacts of proposed Medicaid cuts.
This blog analyses enrollment and participation in stand-alone dental plans through health Marketplaces and how state-specific policy decisions impacts them.
This blog discusses preventive services for infectious diseases covered by health insurance plans.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog uses Arkansas' work requirement program and national survey data to highlight the effects of Medicaid work requirements on coverage and enrollment.
This Urban Institute report includes results of a per capita cap on the Medicaid expansion population.
This brief explores the adoption of alternative payment models for pediatric primary care and considerations for state Medicaid agencies.
This report focuses on the effects of implicit bias in health and the results of implicit bias training.
This blog discusses marketplace policy changes for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and considerations for a proposed rule that could reverse this coverage.
This blog examines the impact of ACA protections on U.S. adults with pre-existing conditions.
This blog provides national and state-by-state estimates of key Medicaid cuts under consideration and advises states on how to use the data to inform and validate their Medicaid spending.
This blog post analyzes potential state policy changes and the ten-year impact of Medicaid cuts.
This fact sheet provides state-by-state estimates of Medicaid expansion adults who could lose coverage in 2026 if federal work requirements are implemented.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog highlights the effects of CFPB's final rule, including its impact on consumers.
This blog shares state-specific estimates of proposed Medicaid cuts.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog summarizes recent action on EHB updates and adult dental coverage and discusses operational considerations for states.
This blog discusses the development of "Food Is Medicine" interventions and how states can fund these programs through Medicaid.
This blog highlights key strategies to expand access to innovative health technology, including glucose monitors, to people with diabetes.
This blog covers the key aspects of the OOA Final Rule and the business acumen for Areas Agencies on Aging to maximize funding.
This blog provides an overview on a bill passed in the House of Representatives to estimate the effects of implementing work requirements for Medicaid coverage.
This blog discusses the background and status of price transparency for healthcare services and the new executive order requirements.
This blog highlights the MHPAEA rule requirements for behavioral healthcare and use of “non-quantitative treatment limits."
This blog covers the effects of cuts to CDC-funded public health initiatives and services.
State Health & Value Strategies hosted a webinar to discuss key considerations for states along with an overview of the recent CMS-proposed regulation.
This blog discusses why families value Medicaid and how critical the program is for their health.
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 shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog discusses how proposed cuts to federal programs like Medicaid and SNAP could negatively affect families' access to necessities.
This blog discusses how states can support family caregivers and proposes improvements for state caregiving websites to increase awareness of services.
This blog highlights four levers that states used to provide improved access to oral health services for Medicaid enrollees.
This blog discusses the effect of the "use in the home" policy on accessibility.
This blog shares how the AHRQ is critical to healthcare and providing quality care to patients.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This brief estimates insurance rates for uninsured young adults in 2024 and encourages states to engage with them to boost enrollment.
This report analyzes the potential coverage losses from Medicaid work requirements based on two state examples.
This blog highlights state health officials improving access to maternal care through participation in the National Academy for State Health Policy's Advancing State Strategies to Address Maternity Care Deserts Policy Academy.
This blog examines potential changes if CMS implements proposed changes to ACA marketplace and insurance rules.
This blog post covers information on the EBCI Tribal Option and its value-added services.
That's Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This report evaluates TEC's new implementation protocols and provides insights on referrals for home-visiting services.
This brief examines how providers would be affected by proposed cuts to Medicaid expansion.
This blog post covers the directives and implications for states in light of the recent executive directive.
This blog post offers three options for state Medicaid agencies to proactively address enrollee needs during natural disasters along with state examples.
This blog shares findings from mental health systems research and youth-led recommendations for improving policies in rural areas of North Carolina.
This blog shares a report that provides a roadmap for states to design and maintain a successful rate review program.
This blog highlights how health coverage improves health outcomes and financial security on health insurance enrollees.
This research report estimates the health coverage impact if states were to preserve Medicaid funding or drop Medicaid expansion if the federal matching rate reduced by 90 percent.
This report shares coverage trends for 2026-2035 for the five eligibility groups and impact on states if per capita caps are imposed.
This blog covers the implications of private-equity financial and operational decisions and policy reform to counteract decreased access to quality care as a result.
This blog post shares the experiences of African American women in Mississippi to address local healthcare system issues.
This blog provides a checklist states can reference to establish and design effective BACs.
This blog shares the Medicaid Community Member Engagement Landscape Assessment Guide, a tool designed to help state Medicaid agencies systematically document existing efforts to engage community members.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog focuses on how Maryland's approach to planning improved resident engagement and achieved equity-driven initiatives.
This webinar explores policy considerations and opportunities to achieve reproductive health equity.
That’s Medicaid shares stories of people covered by Medicaid at critical points in their lives, underscoring the importance of stable health insurance coverage.
This blog post discusses who may be impacted by changes to preventive care requirements and what states can do to protect residents' access to these services.
This blog post documents relevant changes to coverage since the Medicaid unwinding, such as uninsurance rates by age.
This blog discusses the new updates to the tool, such as providing cost data for more than 4,500 hospitals from 2011-2023.
This blog outlines the regulations within the NBPP regarding fraudulent enrollment reductions and improvements to consumer plan choices.
This brief reviews a literature scan on racial and ethnic patient-provider concordance to highlight the potential effects of a less diverse healthcare workforce.
This blog post analyzes Oklahoma and South Carolina's approach to provider-based reference pricing and its benefits, such as significant savings for members and state taxpayers.
This blog reviews updated health data sets and measures, including a short explanation of the measure and its data source.
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.
This blog post highlights how learning from families and youth can better support the millions of children and youth with special healthcare needs on Medicaid and CHIP.
This webinar highlights outstanding challenges and suggests public and private actions that can improve the collection and use of race and ethnicity data.
This blog summarizes changes made by the annual insurance rule, including requirements for marketplaces, regulations on QHPs, oversight enhancements, and annual modifications to the risk adjust program.
Rising prices of hospital services and prescription drugs are outpacing the growth of other goods in the economy and contributing to the climbing healthcare costs. This blog highlights a range of strategies states used in 2024 to address high healthcare costs.
This blog highlights how the updated complaints data report, qualifying payment amounts audit, and federal market reviews have shown that compliance with the NSA is effective.
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 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.
This blog discusses how federal and state policy approaches can improve the expansion of electronic health records and health IT connecting community mental healthcare to the rest of the health system.
This blog post outlines the recent proposals to cut ACA funding and implications for ACA marketplaces.
This blog post summarizes states with approving and pending Medicaid 1115 waivers.
This blog summarizes new guidance from CMS' updated SHO letter, specifically relating to CHIP.
This blog explores the potential AI has to advance health research and care and the associated challenges and opportunities of its usage.
This guide provides a national overview of health insurance data and an interactive map of information about state agencies and coverage sources.
This blog examines how California, Massachusetts, and Vermont are leveraging Medicaid and Title V programs to ensure children living with a serious illness can access pediatric palliative 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.
In this blog post, SHVS summarizes CMS' latest Informational Bulletins and their requirements.
This blog examines Rhode Island's oral health transformation approach and highlights strategies to improve the overall health and wellbeing of Medicaid enrollees.
This blog discusses how Medicaid payment for interpersonal consultation services improves behavioral health services provided to maternal and child populations.
This blog examines the benefits of pro-competition reform in healthcare, such as innovation and better-value services.
This blog examines ASTHO's role in supporting policy improvements in Missouri and how other health agencies are advancing policy efforts.
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.
This brief examines the implementation of postpartum coverage extensions in five states and identifies key considerations for ensuring extended coverage translates to the use of comprehensive services.
This blog details the newly added "Food Insecurity" measure to the State Health Compare tool from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
This analysis examines 12 Medicaid managed care state websites' transparency of enrollment, payment, and quality data specific to young children to measure their performance.
This brief examines household spending increases on premiums by state and income if enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) were to expire.
This commentary reviews key updates to health-related social needs (HRSN) compared to those previously outlined in the past bulletin.
This brief reviews discussions with experts on how the Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool (MET) can address the effects of systemic racism in Medicaid.
This blog reviews examples of state partnerships with public housing authorities (PHAs) that support public housing to improve health and social outcomes.
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.
This toolkit can inform planning related to implementing continuous enrollment policies, adopting alternative payment models to encourage providers to embrace innovative pediatric care delivery practices, and developing an oversight and quality improvement strategy to promote improved health and wellbeing outcomes for young children.
This presentation explores how increased transparency in healthcare can be leveraged by consumers, employers, researchers, and states in support of cost-containment efforts.
This article reviews how states can shift the responsibility of accessing financial assistance away from patients and onto hospitals.
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.
This toolkit includes materials state agencies can use to recruit members for the Beneficiary Advisory Council (BAC), including a recruitment flyer, template social media graphics, core messages, website copy, and newsletter copy.
This blog shares resources detailing how Medicaid, policymakers, plans, and healthcare providers increasingly engage community members to inform program design and implementation.
This brief presents insights on engaging people with lived experience to support behavioral health transformation.
This blog explores how a community-based system dynamics methodology enables teams to understand and collaboratively address complex issues such as health equity.
This blog interviews a researcher leading a project assessing the barriers to advancing and sustaining American Indian and Alaskan Native students in undergraduate medical and nursing education programs.
This blog reviews how states are implementing strategies to address overlapping public health crises while tailoring to the unique needs of populations.
This blog reviews options for state policymakers seeking to advance healthcare transparency of prices, ownership, and billing to rein in commercial healthcare prices.
This blog reviews five examples of how Medicaid can contribute to improving outcomes for people in the criminal legal system.
This blog reviews the key provisions of the proposed Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) rule that may address public health data gaps to advance health equity and improve health outcomes.
This webinar highlights state approaches addressing health-related social needs (HRSN) in Medicaid managed care programs, followed by a discussion with state Medicaid officials.
This article focuses on policies related to Marketplaces, insurance reforms, and Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTC).
This blog reviews key strategies for effective planning and underscores planning as a foundational activity for resilient and adaptable health departments.
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.
These customizable resources support state agencies in recruiting members for the Beneficiary Advisory Council (BAC).
This toolkit includes curated examples from states to address health-related social needs (HRSN) and information to develop managed care procurements or update and operationalize key contract provisions.
This blog offers insight into North Carolina’s medical debt relief incentive program and highlights opportunities for other states.
This commentary examines national- and state-level data on healthcare coverage from the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS).
This blog connects evidence and implementation resources with emerging state and federal policies about behavioral health to better support patients.
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.
This blog highlights the new Oregon Project Independence Medicaid (OPI-M) waiver, which allows more at-risk Medicaid-eligible older adults and people with disabilities to receive long-term services and supports.
This toolkit includes resources designed to help states effectively promote information about Marketplace enrollment and health plan options to consumers during the annual open enrollment period.
This blog reviews several important policies and programmatic changes that could impact ACA Marketplace consumers next year.
This blog reviews significant steps taken by states to strengthen their public health infrastructure by increasing funding critical for improvements, defining the core services that health departments should provide, and establishing public health standards.
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.
This expert perspective provides an overview of CMS’ new Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) guidance, which represents CMS’ most comprehensive discussion of EPSDT requirements in over a decade.
This blog reviews a discussion where multiple state agencies discuss ways to engage the community health worker (CHW) workforce for programs supporting justice-involved individuals.
This blog reviews the significance of promoting Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) awareness.
This customizable slide deck template supports internal state agency communication about the Beneficiary Advisory Council (BAC) and Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) and a summary of the new advisory groups' functions, objectives, composition, and outcomes.
This commentary reviews state actions addressing the healthcare workforce shortage.
This blog reviews the new notice of funding opportunity for planning grants to state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to develop operational capabilities to support the continuity of care for individuals eligible for Medicaid and CHIP who have been incarcerated.
This recently updated blog shares information from state and territorial health agencies about their experiences, advice, and best practices when responding to the public health concerns caused by hurricanes.
This blog emphasizes the importance of the High-Value, Equitable Care Research Agenda on improving the quality of care for all.
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.
This blog shares insights from pediatric experts on what a transformed child health system might look like and why child health transformation is needed now more than ever.
This blog reviews Oregon’s response to the state's increase in healthcare spending and provider consolidation through state oversight of health system transactions.
This blog recaps an event where state officials gathered to emphasize the importance of ensuring access to services for youth involved in multiple systems, including behavioral health, child welfare, and juvenile justice.
This blog examines how the lack of diversity within the healthcare workforce is a significant contributing factor to the high Black infant mortality rate across the nation.
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.
This webinar gathered Medicaid stakeholders from communities and state agencies to discuss practical steps to address health literacy through improved communications, national cultural and language access standards (such as CLAS), and community engagement.
This blog examines CMS guidance to implement Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) requirements.
This blog reviews what CMS expects from states and how CMS will assess states' Medicaid/CHIP renewal progress to comply with the new requirements.
This blog reviews considerations for states weighing whether to add the the flexibility offered by CMS.
This blog explores changes in national-level coverage rates by demographic characteristics such as age, employment, race and ethnicity, immigration status, poverty status, and Medicaid expansion status.
This blog reviews recent survey data findings on how the insurance coverage of low-income children changed between 2022 and 2023 both nationally and at the state level.
This interactive map shows uninsurance rates by state and sub-state geographies, demographic characteristics for 2023, and comparison year 2022.
This blog reviews the benefits of extending premium tax credits (PTCs) and the drawbacks of delaying their extension.
This blog examines the following steps to strengthen the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) in Medicaid and CHIP.
This blog reviews the decided and upcoming cases in the U.S. Supreme Court impacting public health and how lower federal and state courts must apply the new precedents.
This analysis examines the expected distribution of enhanced PTCs among people with incomes over 400 percent of FPL by age, income, and state.
This blog walks through state-level findings regarding different types of health insurance and changes by age category.
This blog examines how state implementation choices will impact the success of multi-year continuous eligibility for children.
This blog explores state-level 988 data to uncover insights into how the 988 system is performing across various states nationwide.
This blog highlights the aftermath of the Medicaid unwinding and state efforts to smooth coverage transitions.
This blog examines how stockpiling has shaped recent state readiness legislation and state actions to bolster preparedness efforts through stockpiling.
This blog examines MODRN's early contributions to quality measurements and how it benefits states and university partners.
This expert perspective summarizes the Health Affairs article and related considerations around reinsurance.
This annotated bibliography compiles academic research and grey literature sources that explain and provide analysis of the underlying factors and root causes that may contribute to inequities in Medicaid.
This blog details and provides resources on how the health sector can play a pivotal role in civic engagement by integrating voter registration into health services.
The Tennessee lawsuit alleged four major types of failures by the state.
Part 1 of this blog series provides an overview of health systems resiliency and the role of health services research in building a resilient health system.
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.
This blog post reviews and links to the CMCS Informational Bulletin (CIB) and accompanying slide deck.
This dual-language toolkit provides families with information on Medicaid and CHIP and how to apply or re-apply.
This blog reviews how state governments and federal agencies are finding new ways to address the demand for behavioral health providers.
This webinar reviews how state health agencies can implement a policy development guide with examples from states that have successfully implemented the guide.
In this webinar, experts provide a detailed overview of CMS' guidance in the State Health Official (SHO) letter offering states the option to provide full-scope Medicaid and CHIP services to justice-involved eligible children and youth.
This blog reviews how states can reference Maximum Fair Prices (MFPs) for broader savings.
This blog explores the new integrated health partnership program and how it impacts communities in Minnesota.
This blog examines community-based assistance programs and resources in each state.
This blog reviews recent legislation that would reshape public health’s legal authorities to address the spread of infectious disease.
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.
This blog offers an overview of current disability data collection standards, including how states collect self-reported disability information on Medicaid applications.
This blog shares insights, best practices, and implementation opportunities for reimbursement of community health worker (CHW) services from NASHP's CHW Learning Collaborative SPA workshop series.
This report reviews and explains how the Access and Managed Care Rules will significantly improve access to care, data and payment transparency, and beneficiary engagement in healthcare.
This blog reviews the Government Accountability Office's (GOA) report entitled: “Medicaid: Federal Oversight of State Eligibility Redeterminations Should Reflect Lessons Learned after COVID-19.”
This report reviews four states’ prior authorization policies for the commercial market, examines a range of state-level prior authorization reforms, and assesses how they affect patients, providers, and insurers.
This infographic highlights the unique healthcare challenges people in the LGBTQ+ community face and how Medicaid agencies can support high-quality LGBTQ+ healthcare.
This blog identifies state, territorial, and freely associated state health agencies’ (S/THAs) top current and emerging priorities across public health programs, infrastructure, and health equity and agency strategies to address them.
This article announces the selection of Indiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina to participate in the Policy Academy to Strengthen SNAP E&T Delivery.
This blog reviews what can be anticipated from the upcoming release of the Census Bureau’s 2023 survey data in September based on current Medicaid unwinding statistics.
This blog highlights key details from the new resources published by the state of Tennessee to help stakeholders assist families who may be eligible for the new diaper benefit.
This blog highlights recent Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP) policy developments.
The resources reviewed in this collection examine evidence-based strategies to better address the behavioral health needs of people during reentry and implementation strategies.
This blog examines the assumptions and justifications behind the 2025 premium increases for individual and small-group market health plans in the District of Columbia (DC), Maine, Maryland, Oregon, and Vermont.
This commentary shares how Medicaid covered Shari's home living assistant, allowing her to work and live independently.
This state toolkit intended to support decision-making in states interested in, actively pursuing, or implementing section 1115 demonstrations to provide continuous enrollment (CE) to Medicaid and CHIP populations, with a focus on multi-year CE for young children.
This blog offers insight and consideration for states as they implement sections 5121 and 5122 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA).
This blog examines CMS’s decision to post state Managed Care Program Annual Reports (MCPARs) and the transparency of continuing to do so going forward.
This blog reviews how states can leverage the lessons learned from previous emergency response plans, such as those implemented during the Zika outbreak, to better prepare for future emergencies.
This blog reviews how to support and recognize community health workers and the work they do to improve public health.
This blog examines how community-based organizations (CBOs) and public health organizations can learn from the Office of Management and Budget’s work and from each other when considering equitable practices for collecting demographic data.
This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores how Medicaid can better serve tribes by establishing clear lines of communication between tribal communities and Medicaid staff, featuring perspectives from two tribal leaders and an Arizona Medicaid leader.
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.
During the webinar, experts reviewed the new OMB standards for race and ethnicity data collection, described the history of federally-defined race and ethnicity data collection standards, and highlighted the motivations for the revisions.
This blog discusses how the proposed rule would establish baseline organizational standards, include emergency services requirements, and provide Medicaid reimbursement for certain services outside a clinic.
This blog reviews how adopting policies to advance state and local data sharing and incorporating health equity principles into these relationships can help public health agencies better identify and address data disparities, utilize resources effectively, and create an equity-centered public health data infrastructure.
This blog highlights current language and accessibility supports on state websites and suggests how states can make improvements.
This blog examines community power building and underscores the pivotal role that public health professionals can have in achieving health equity.
This brief assesses changes in health insurance coverage and cost-related barriers to healthcare during the COVID-19 public health emergency following the implementation of policies that aimed to improve access to Medicaid and Marketplace coverage.
State Health and Value Strategies will host a webinar on July 15, during which experts will review the new OMB standards for race and ethnicity data collection, describe the history of federally-defined race and ethnicity data collection standards, and highlight the motivations for the revisions.
This blog examines what State Directed Payments are, how they can be used to improve access to care, and some changes in how CMS will allow and regulate them.
This blog reviews how many states across the nation are using videos to demonstrate helpful concepts related to enrolling in and renewing Medicaid and CHIP coverage.
This fact sheet explores approaches to advancing health equity, future work opportunities, and health equity resources.
This blog discusses extended timelines for states to process Medicaid renewals, the importance of reporting renewal outcomes, and updates to renewal data.
This blog discusses the project's findings, which detailed that top concerns and stressors felt by parents and providers of young children were childcare, housing, and healthcare.
This blog discusses how states are promoting primary care in commercial investment and through other state agencies, and steps other states consider as they focus on setting primary care investment targets.
This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores how Medicaid agencies can better serve children with special healthcare needs and their families.
This blog discusses how MCPs can partner with homeless service providers to enhance care and services for people experiencing homelessness.
This brief highlights key considerations to shape Medicaid policies that enhance health outcomes and quality of care for LGBTQ+ individuals.
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.
This map gives a detailed description of the status of each state's coverage program or initiative for non-citizens, the vehicle through which the program has been established, if the program provides limited coverage only, and if the program has not yet been implemented for.
This blog covers some of the quintessential outreach efforts performed by states to inform and educate individuals about Medicaid and CHIP benefits.
This blog examines policies lawmakers are working on to determine the best path forward for delivering telehealth services throughout the United States.
This blog reviews tools and approaches developed and refined to center health and equity in policymaking.
This fact sheet can help Medicaid agencies, health plans, providers, and other healthcare organizations involve community members more effectively in program and policy decision-making.
This report examines states’ use of Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations to cover housing, nutrition, and other HRSN services and supports for pregnant and postpartum individuals and young children who are experiencing or at risk of unmet HRSN.
This podcast episode shares the story of a parent advocate working with Ohio Medicaid to break down silos and improve communication across state agencies serving families, especially those who have complex needs.
This blog gives an overview of BHPs and examines the recent approval of New York's 1332 State Innovation Waiver to further expand its BHP.
This blog reviews state legislation to regulate outpatient facility fees.
This blog reviews six key design choices in The Center for Health Care Strategies’ new resource, Developing Primary Care Population-Based Payment Models in Medicaid: A Primer For States.
This blog post shares insights from industry experts on resources states can use to build Medicare knowledge and effectively develop Medicaid-Medicare integrated models.
This blog summarizes the successful advocacy tactics employed by AcademyHealth and outlines the potential harm of CMS' data access restrictions policy.
This brief reviews Wisconsin's endeavor to tackle homelessness across the state through the creation of the Ending Homelessness through State-Continuum of Care Partnerships (EHSCP) group.
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.
This blog outlines provisions of the final rule allowing DACA grantees to access Marketplace coverage and how DACA grantees will be affected by the new rule.
This blog reviews CMS marketplace enrollment data from February 2024, which was after the 2024 Open Enrollment Period had ended in nearly all states.
This blog examines new data on maternal mortality and disparities, and the tools states have available to help combat maternal mortality and morbidity before, during, and after pregnancy.
This expert perspective highlights an MMC approach newly added to the Compendium of Medicaid Managed Care Contracting Strategies to Promote Health Equity.
This commentary reviews changes beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2025 requiring states to report a subset of Child and Adult Core Set measures by race and ethnicity, sex, and geography. By requiring data disaggregation for key populations of interest, policymakers, advocates and researchers will have a new tool to measure, monitor and inform policies and practices that focus on health equity.
Part Three in this series of webinars provides a detailed overview of provisions in the Access Rule that aim to enhance access to HCBS, standardize quality measures and reporting requirements, and help address long-standing shortages in the direct care workforce.
This blog details why state agencies can and should post relevant enrollment and eligibility information on social media platforms to connect with those eligible for Medicaid/CHIP.
This brief reviews the steps leaders of active and longstanding palliative care advisory councils in Maine, Maryland, and Texas to learn about their creation, impact, and lessons learned for states looking to do the same.
The first blog in this new series identifies landing pages for online Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace application portals in each state and links to the application that can be printed and returned by mail.
This podcast explores the importance of integrating benefits for dual eligibles to create more person-centered care and services for members.
This commentary examines what states will need to create and support a Beneficiary Advisory Council (BAC) composed solely of current and former Medicaid enrollees, their family members, and paid and unpaid caregivers under the Access Rule.
This podcast highlights the need to better address maternal health disparities, particularly for Black, American Indian, Alaskan Native women, and people living in rural communities.
This blog post highlights three key lessons for agencies to consider when embarking on an organizational development journey in Medicaid.
This blog reviews changes to the Medicaid and CHIP programs to streamline enrollment for eligible individuals.
This guide equips advocates and other changemakers with critical information for advancing health equity in behavioral health care.
This map compares the maximum SNAP benefit per meal with the county-level average cost of a modestly priced meal in 2023.
This brief provides an annual update to comparisons of uninsurance estimates from five federal surveys
This blog post reviews the new provisions related to documentation of access to care and service payment rates from the Access Rule.
This blog reviews changes to the Managed Care Rule, where the CMS updated the definition and oversight of ILOS in important ways that should both increase the flexibility to use ILOS as a tool for improving health and increase the integrity of ILOS spending.
This infographic defines health literacy and its importance in improving health outcomes and lowering health care costs, and it highlights ways healthcare organizations can better support the people and communities they serve with clear, effective health information.
In this blog, experts share how organizations across the country are striving to implement systems to link clients to a diverse range of public health services and supports to address their specific challenges and help them succeed in different aspects of life.
This blog examines five important public health state policy issues.
This blog introduces new resources about people with disabilities and improvements to AcademyHealth's Resource Hub to make it more accessible for all.
This commentary summarizes the provisions of the new Department of Health and Human Services regulation and discusses the implications for states.
This commentary details a new Health Affairs Forefront article examining the burgeoning trend of state efforts to alleviate medical debt.
This commentary reviews the implications of the final rule interpreting section 1557 for state policymakers.
This brief provides states with examples of data-sharing agreements and promising practices to facilitate data-sharing efforts across health and housing systems at the state and local levels.
This blog reviews new data on the share of children with Medicaid/CHIP coverage of more than 7,000 school districts nationwide and the importance these coverage programs have to students.
This blog takes a closer look at the provisions of the rule relating to the adequacy of MCO provider networks: searchable provider directories, analyses of payments to network providers, appointment wait time standards, secret shopper surveys, and remedy plans.
This blog details the Beneficiary Advisory Councils (BACs) established by the rule representing a historic opportunity to leverage the experiences of people enrolled in Medicaid to improve state Medicaid programs.
This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast highlights the need to better address maternal health disparities, particularly for Black, American Indian, and Alaskan Native women, and people living in rural communities.
This brief explores approaches to incorporating health equity in value-based payment design, creating payment models that positively impact health disparities, outcomes, and costs in Medicaid.
This blog examines the how PRISM helped Missouri achieve its goals through exemplifying a proactive approach to addressing critical maternal health challenges.
This blog shares state perspectives on addressing DEI and offers takeaways and lessons.
This tool offers practical tips for pediatric providers to make the practice environment more father-friendly by challenging personal assumptions around fathers’ roles, educating staff on the benefits of involving dads, and creating a more welcoming practice environment for all caregivers.
This blog examines new data for January 2024, which was the last month of the 2024 Open Enrollment Period in nearly all states.
During this webinar, experts from Manatt Health provided an overview of the provisions in both rules regarding access monitoring, enrollee engagement, provider payment transparency, and HCBS.
This inaugural post highlights state activity from March and April 2024.
This latest update to the resource includes descriptions of the approaches 26 states are taking within MMC to promote health equity, examples of what states are doing examples, and excerpts from state contracts and procurement documents.
This blog reviews resources from national subject matter experts and three areas of policy: payment and financing mechanisms, data-driven policies, and cross-sector collaboration.
This paper uses administrative data reported by states to CMS to examine how the unwinding impacted children’s enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP in 2023.
This blog provides a high-level summary of the Managed Care Rule.
This first episode in a new season of the podcast highlights the importance of Medicaid to the millions of people living in rural communities across the country.
This blog post reviews existing regulations on nursing home staffing and breaks down CMS’ new staffing requirements, including how states will need to respond.
This blog uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to track trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” Medicaid continuous coverage and restart standard redetermination procedures.
This brief describes the framework and outlines state leaders can use to align on policies and programs that serve young children and their families.
This blog reviews the many positive impacts community health workers can have on the communities they serve.
This blog examines research on continuous Medicaid coverage and mental health among mothers and infants in the postpartum year.
This blog review TAC's newest resource, an FAQ page, and updates from the center.
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.
This report exhibits the findings from the Marketplace Affordability Project that examined the causes of high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for low-income marketplace enrollees and identified federal policy solutions.
This blog reviews new projects addressing the strategic aims of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to gain a nuanced understanding of the behavioral health practitioner workforce.
This blog emphasizes the importance of including PWLEs in research and data collection.
On April 2, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for 2025. This annual rule governs core provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including operation of the health insurance Marketplaces, standards for health plans, insurance brokers (including web-brokers), and the risk adjustment program. This blog focuses on provisions of the final rule of interest to state officials.
During this webinar, experts from Manatt Health reviewed key Medicaid and CHIP provisions in the final rule and discussed considerations for state policymakers.
The survey series provides an in-depth view of health plans’ responses regarding risk mitigation, disenrollment, and outreach.
This report summarizes and examines the content of the most recent final rule from CMS.
This blog examines which states nationwide have taken steps toward Medicaid coverage for doula care.
This blog offers guiding principles state agencies can implement to meet the new federal requirements and integrate Medicaid members into the policymaking and program design process effectively and equitably.
This blog examines increases in Marketplace enrollment among people losing Medicaid coverage during the unwinding.
This blog discusses the implications of the final rule for state regulators.
This blog examines the first batch of call center data provided by CMS from March and its shortcomings.
This blog tracks trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.
One of the proposed changes to the federal regulations that govern the ACA would permit states to require the coverage of adult dental services. This blog reviews comments submitted in response to the proposed 2025 Notice of Benefits and Payers Parameters by select stakeholder groups.
Recognizing the critical link between health and transportation, many states are encouraging agencies to strategically align resources. This blog explores cross-sector collaborations related to access to care and highlights several promising examples from across the country.
In this blog, the Center for Health Care Strategies examines how state agencies employ health literacy strategies to improve health equity.
In this report, the Urban Institute identifies how the health system in Texas is advancing health equity by addressing the nonmedical drivers of health.
This expert perspective reviews the healthcare policies and programs recently funded by Congress for FY 2024 as well as the Biden administration’s stated healthcare priorities for FY 2025.
In this blog, The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families outlines and expands on the 10 "Do Nots" outlined in the bulletin.
In this blog, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families analyzes recent survey findings regarding the impact of Medicaid unwinding and enrollees' experiences.
In this blog, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials contributors offer solutions for public health agencies to address burnout and improve retention among workers.
CMS recently added new questions on the topic of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to the application used by HealthCare.gov and released guidance for states that want to add the same questions to their Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program applications. This brief summarizes the guidance and presents several considerations for states as they look to improve their collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data.
In this blog CCF analyzes CMS data on marketplace enrollment from November, 2023.
The Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Georgetown University analyzed data on which states are taking longer than the federally regulated 45 days to process Medicaid applications for low-income children, families, and adults. This blog takes a look at some of the states taking longer than their allotted 45 days and the possible reasons behind it.
A new Health Affairs blog describes the cultural shift in Medicaid managed care post-COVID-19 to address the social needs of enrollees.
The Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Georgetown University scanned state Medicaid agency websites for information about the performance of individual managed care organizations (MCOs) for children, youth in foster care, and pregnant and postpartum women. This blog assesses CCF's findings and the financial transparency of state Medicaid agency websites
This blog outlines vaccine coverage and payment policies for Medicaid and CHIP, and outlines strategies states can take to boost vaccine rates for children
This brief highlights how pilot program efforts in Calif. are fostering innovative cross-sector collaboration to better serve people experiencing homelessness.
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.
This blog tracks trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states unwind the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and continue redetermination procedures.
This blog discusses resources to help state Medicaid leaders partner to connect more program enrollees with the WIC benefits they are qualified to receive.
This blog highlights proposed key steps that must be taken to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
This webinar reviews how and why the tools were created and how to use the tools to understand the scope of equity work for a state agency.
This blog highlights updated measures using new ACS and CPS data.
This blog discusses action on prevention, treatment, and recovery, as well as action to stop fentanyl trafficking.
This blog highlights an interview that shares STRETCH representatives' experiences and how the opportunity guided health equity initiatives and provided valuable networking and connection.
CMS released an updated State Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Toolkit on issues from billing best practices to strategies for using telehealth in schools. This blog shares a toolkit that includes state best practices and strategies, information such as a state checklist, a Medicaid telehealth assessment plan, and telehealth communication strategies.
This blog shares a “Medicaid Churn Toolkit” to guide Medicaid agencies and their partners in the design and implementation of efforts to reduce churn.
This blog shares policies states have enacted to help prevent childhood trauma and ensure families have adequate resources to provide their children with a safe environment to grow up in.
This blog discusses how programs that support lactation professionals can support Black women beyond delivery.
This commentary shares the story of Linda from Connecticut, who was able to access life-saving preventive services that enabled her to return to work.
This blog discusses the surge in Marketplace enrollment among individuals losing coverage during the unwinding.
This blog examines how gaps in coverage are affecting California families, particularly those that have children with special healthcare needs, and steps the state can take to renew coverage for more families.
Using Medicaid claims data, this analysis examines adult preventable hospitalization rates across 21 states for the three most common types of preventable hospitalizations: asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, and heart failure.
This blog examines a Q&A, which is intended to serve as an added resource for states implementing continuous eligibility.
This blog compared states' ex parte rates from their first month of unwinding to the most recent to identify whether progress has been made.
This blog shares a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, which reviews policy decisions by state-run Marketplaces and the federally facilitated Marketplace.
This blog examines state and territorial health agencies strategies, and state approaches during the unwinding of continuous coverage.
This blog discusses a report that recommends steps state Medicaid agencies can take to address mental health among mothers and infants in the postpartum year, highlighting recent federal actions with implications for state action.
This blog discusses how Benefit Data Trust's policy team is supporting seven agencies to simplify the SNAP application process for families and individuals and community-based organizations that assist state agencies in screening and enrolling applicants by phone.
This blog shares how partnerships between pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology can promote access to risk-appropriate care and create a stronger continuity of care for parents and their children.
This blog examines the use of AI and legislation focused on its impact on healthcare and public health.
This blog presents annual, state-level vaccination rates for children aged 35 months, specifically the percentage of those children who received the full series of recommended vaccines.
In this blog, CHIR shares findings from a 50-state assessment of insurance department authority to conduct rate review.
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.
This blog highlights findings from a rapid message test conducted to gauge the persuasiveness of Medicaid renewal message themes.
This blog reviews FAQs from the Georgetown Center on Health Insurance Reforms' Navigator Resource Guide related to the conclusion of the annual open enrollment period.
This blog discusses how policymakers are addressing access to care through telehealth, safety net and emergency services, and adjusted reimbursement rates to Medicaid-enrolled providers.
This blog from State Health & Value Strategies (SHVS) examines new HRSN highlights from states across the country and reviews recent updates to SHVS' HRSN Toolkit.
On December 18, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a suite of Medicaid unwinding-related guidance and enrollment data that includes a focus on ensuring eligible children maintain Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage. In conjunction with CMS’ release, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent letters to the governors of nine states with the highest child disenrollment rates.
This blog from State Health & Value Strategies reviews the HHS letters and discusses specific resources available to states as the unwinding continues.
This blog discusses market reforms, Marketplace standards, and Advance Premium Tax Credit Policies in relation to HHS' 2025 Payment Rule.
This brief outlines key strategies to engage families and providers in co-creating cross-sector alignment solutions that can more effectively serve children and their families.
This blog discusses how organizations can integrate trauma-responsiveness into leadership practice.
This blog examines states' unwinding data, variation in reporting of indicators, and data dashboards.
This brief reviews innovative approaches and communication strategies states and territories are employing to address health equity needs.
This blog highlights new and innovative initiatives being implemented during the plan year 2024 OEP.
This blog reviews SBMs reporting of Marketplace transition outcome data, state variations in reporting, and considerations for presenting outcomes data.
This blog highlights a new Commonwealth Fund post, which assesses the status of state efforts to smooth coverage transitions during the unwinding and discusses the need for more timely and accurate data.
This blog explores a few frequently asked questions about Marketplace coverage issues that LGBTQI+ individuals may face.
This brief outlines strategies for state Medicaid agencies to help people experiencing food insecurity obtain continuous access to nourishing food.
This webinar explored successful practices for data coordination between SNAP and Medicaid agencies gleaned from a 50-state survey and three state case studies.
This blog shares stories from public sector leaders across the country as they navigate day-to-day operations.
This webinar explores successful practices for data coordination between SNAP and Medicaid.
This blog provides infection control strategies public health leaders can adopt during respiratory disease season.
Using state data, this continually-updated blog analyzes the current state of the unwinding and identifies state-based based best practices and trends.
This blog examines CMS' fourth release of state data reporting metrics, which includes information on Marketplace enrollment transitions.
This blog uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to track trends in adult health insurance coverage rates during the unwinding.
This blog shares how community members and state Medicaid programs can strengthen partnerships to improve care and meet federal requirements.
The ways we collect, manage, analyze, and share data used for healthcare and public health decision-making have advanced considerably over the past decade. However, with the implementation of a new, voluntary approach for health data exchange later this year, that burden could be lessened. Later this year, healthcare entities can begin sharing health data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, also known as TEFCA.
This blog examines eligibility requirements for individuals interested in Marketplace coverage.
This blog discusses strategies to include people living with disabilities in the public health workforce and help the current workforce focus through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens.
This blog examines the federal oversight of JUUL and how states can harness settlement funds for effective tobacco control measures.
This blog discusses the impact of the Public Health Equity Corps fellowship on the public health workforce and its influence on state health agencies.
This brief examines a conceptual map of structural racism in healthcare.
This blog examines SHADAC's 2022 ACS table in comparison to 2021.
This blog highlights a new Commonwealth Fund brief, which documents the policies and practices State Based Marketplaces have implemented to facilitate access to health insurance information for Limited English Proficiency individuals and otherwise meet their needs.
This blog summarizes key takeaways regarding the inclusion of maternal and child health in infectious disease emergency preparedness and response in states and territories.
This resource center offers tools for providers, community partners, family and patient leaders, policymakers, and others seeking to transform child healthcare through identified key strategies, including: adopting anti-racists policies to advance equity; co-creating equitable partnerships between patients, families, and providers; and identifying family strengths and addressing health-related social needs.
This blog summarizes a number of new and ongoing policy changes that will impact the Marketplace as the annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage kicks off November 1 in most states.
This blog offers guidance to help healthcare organizations develop appropriate compensation practices for community members.
This blog reviews and shares resources from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials' healthy aging portfolio, along with a roadmap state officials can utilize to promote brain health.
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.
This blog builds on the webinar by outlining key recommendations to maintain diversity and foster inclusion in college admissions and the workforce.
This brief examines rates at which adults with and without disabilities reported they were treated unfairly in clinical and work settings, and its impact on their wellbeing.
This blog examines variations in states' reporting of indicators and data highlights.
This blog shares new CMS data on Marketplace enrollment and transitions, and separate CHIP enrollment.
This blog uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to track trends in adult health insurance coverage rates amid the unwinding.
This blog examines actions states are taking to fill in the gaps when it comes to protecting residents from medical debt.
This blog reviews how Medicaid programs in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have engaged with commercial payers, providers, patients, advocates and other parties to create and adhere to multi-payer aligned measure sets.
This blog discusses federal and state legislative efforts and recommendations for improving infant mental health.
This blog provides a high-level overview of key provisions included in the final rule that will facilitate enrollment and retention of Medicare Savings Program coverage.
This blog examines the current slate of proposals to reform abusive billing practices in the commercial market.
This blog discusses how the STRETCH convenings left state teams with tools to help them advance their health equity work.
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.
This blog discusses states' approaches to support coverage through the unwinding period.
This blog examines how public health leaders can improve tobacco control through incremental changes, appeals to science, and partnerships with thought leaders.
This blog examines New York and Minnesota’s experiences with the BHP and lessons for its design and implementation in other states.
This blog uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to track trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.
This blog highlights national and state-level changes that took place between 2021 and 2022 in the broadest categories of insurance.
This blog shares a new report that offers policy recommendations to ensure new mothers are able to access coverage and high-quality care during the postpartum period.
This blog examines how public health leaders are preparing to prevent illness from all three viruses with approved vaccines and preventative antibody treatments.
This paper examines the coverage and cost implications of expanding Medicare Part B to include comprehensive dental benefits.
This brief examines challenges related to using credit cards to pay medical bills.
In this blog and infographic, SHADAC researchers use recently released data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) to analyze private-sector ESI and provide an initial snapshot of estimates for 2022 on a national level and within the states.
In this blog, ASTHO's Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health scholars share insights on how the data modernization initiative and diversity, equity, and inclusion intersect with public health.
The policies discussed in this blog demonstrate how policymakers and health agencies can collaborate to better serve communities after emergencies.
This blog explores how, under the Advancing Integrated Models (AIM) initiative, the Center for Health Care Strategies supported eight healthcare provider organizations in piloting person-centered approaches to care for people with complex health and social needs.
This blog discusses available options states can adopt to improve ex parte rates.
This report shares findings with policy implications for how counts of the uninsured should be interpreted while highlighting the importance of policies that promote Medicaid enrollment and retention.
This blog shares new precise and granular estimates for smaller racial and ethnic subpopulation groups that often are under-researched in ACE studies due to data limitations.
This blog examines actions states can take to increase access to care for substance use disorder among pregnant and postpartum people.
This blog shares data on how states are monitoring the impacts of the resumption of eligibility redeterminations and disenrollments.
This blog shares findings from a report that sheds light on HCMs.
This blog tracks trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement.
This report explores findings from a 2023 symposium that explored why racial and ethnic inequities still exist.
This report shows the share of immigrant families who have avoided safety net programs due to green card concerns in 2022.
This brief examines whether neighborhood conditions vary with children who rely on Medicaid or CHIP for coverage.
This brief describes existing payment barriers and opportunities for primary care providers serving children to work toward financially sustaining care transformation.
This toolkit identifies opportunities and explores strategies to improve call center functionality.
This blog shares individual-level surveys of people who were enrolled in Medicaid during the continuous coverage requirement to help answer whether people are gaining employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) upon leaving Medicaid coverage and why some successfully renewed while others could not.
This blog shares why Marketplace plans will likely be an alternative source of health coverage for only a modest number of people, especially for children, who lose their Medicaid coverage due to unwinding.
This blog shares the findings of CHIR's research into the rate requests from select states with early rate filing deadlines to see what’s behind the premiums consumers could be facing in 2024, both on- and off-Marketplace.
BDT compared two groups with similar demographic characteristics – where one group was enrolled in SNAP and the other was not – and the data showed that the people participating in SNAP incurred healthcare costs that were 16% lower and pharmacy costs that were 21% lower.
This blog includes takeaways from an ASTHO technical package, summarizing a select group of related interventions that, taken together, help achieve and sustain improvements related to risk factors for CS or health outcomes.
This blog shares the steps federal and state policymakers have taken to eliminate PFAS from ground water and drinking water and to mitigate exposure to these forever chemicals.
The blog explores why improving collection of and access to high-quality data is imperative in helping policymakers understand and develop effective solutions to address mechanisms that lead to poor maternal health outcomes.
This blog introduces a new National Governors Association guide, designed to make transformational change in a system that has historically failed mothers and babies.
This publication explores how Medicaid enrollees searching for new health plans on the private market are facing aggressive and misleading marketing of limited benefit products that often fail to protect consumers from the steep cost of healthcare.
This blog examines the role of state advisory councils in emergency preparedness planning and how public health leaders can create a public health ethics committee to ensure equitable resources allocation during an emergency response.
This blog explores how ASTHO and the CDC partnered with subject matter experts to improve overdose death reporting accuracy.
This blog post examines the youth mental health and loneliness crises and shares how public health agencies can work alongside schools to address these crises through social connection.
This blog examines the Suicide, Overdose, Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool and the importance of partnerships among health agencies.
This brief examines experiences with long COVID related to employment and material hardship using a nationally representative survey of nonelderly adults.
In this blog, SHADAC presents 2021 estimates of childhood poverty at the national and state level.
This report analyzes current laws and regulations in 11 study states.
In this blog, CHIR members provide an overview of the meeting—including a presentation by CHIR faculty member Christine Monahan—and its implications for current and future health equity initiatives.
In this podcast, public officials from Wisconsin and Arizona share how their state’s Medicaid programs are partnering with the housing sector to tackle the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness.
This brief identifies ways in which states can leverage their Medicaid managed care programs to advance their health equity goals.
This blog reviews state processes that are underway to ensure eligible children who are losing Medicaid coverage are transitioning to CHIP.
This report, and accompanying brief, explores outpatient facility fee billing in the commercial sector, including the impact of these fees on consumers and how states are responding.
This blog shares why adoption of and compliance with the FDA Food Code is important.
This blog examines states' use of data dashboards to monitor progress on coverage transitions during the unwinding.
This blog examines trends in adult health insurance coverage rates as states “unwind” the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and restart standard redetermination procedures.
This blog examines how state agencies are collaborating to develop resources to mitigate public concerns and better protect the health and welfare of their communities.
This blog discusses how data dashboards allow states to make proactive decisions about what data to release and on what schedule.
This publication highlights the work states in the State Trauma and Resilience Network have been actively involved with since December 2021.
This blog reviews the promise of price transparency as a tool to understand what is driving healthcare cost growth and target strategies to constrain it.
This blog examines the use of data to foster inclusivity in outreach efforts.
This blog discusses the use of evidence based policies, understanding the the vaccine opinion landscape, and how public health leaders can utilize value based messaging.
This blog discusses what states will gain during the learning lab, state team composition and how to apply.
This blog discusses the launch of the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health and its cohort of leaders.
This factsheet examines resources to support policymakers, community organizations, and changemakers in advancing racial equity and rural prosperity across the United States.
This blog examines systemic barriers to health care coverage that the LGBTQ+ community faces, and highlights a few key coverage and access issues that continue to impact LGBTQ+ individuals with private health insurance.
This blog highlights key themes from a roundtable with three leaders about the importance of mentoring, engaging, empowering, and celebrating Black women in Medicaid to support their career development.
In this blog, ASTHO explores authenticity in leadership—what does it mean, what does it take, and how do leaders show up for the LGBTQ+ community.
This blog highlights a conversation between ASTHO's Marcus Plescia and healthcare, technology, and policy experts from across the field, in which they discussed the future of measuring health equity in a world of rapidly evolving data.
This blog discusses the need to invest in equitable infrastructure in disadvantaged communities.
This podcast episode explores how coordinating reentry and support services with community partners can improve the lives of people impacted by the justice system, and potentially help reduce rates of recidivism.
This blog examines rural hospital closures and why rural hospitals may be at risk of closure due to the present and ongoing physician shortage.
This blog discusses how BDT will raise awareness of the Affordable Connectivity Program and highlight the ways in which it has benefited people.
This blog shares details behind AcademyHealth's range of activities to advance data equity, support data learning networks, and extend access to highly valuable datasets for research.
This brief examines trends in healthcare affordability and estimates changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the years leading up to it for two affordability measures.
This blog examines two case studies that highlight how the profile can support the enrollment efforts of local organizations and departments.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials' Public Health TechXpo and Future Forum engaged some of the world’s top leaders in technology and public health on challenges and solutions for modernizing the U.S. public health system. This blog reviews key takeaways from the three-day forum.
This blog discusses Kentucky’s decision-making process behind implementing CHW certification and how the Kentucky Office of CHWs has maintained shared decision-making with their state’s CHW workforce.
This blog discusses how data dashboards can be useful for states to make proactive decisions about what data to release and on what schedule and then organize that data in an easy-to-digest visual format that facilitates the interpretation of key coverage trends.
This blog shares how health agencies play a critical role in strengthening supports for children and youth with incarcerated parents and justice-involved youth to stop the cycle of incarceration.
This blog is the first in a series of blog posts that dive into what changes to the farm bill could mean for administrators and program participants alike.
This blog discusses how states are approaching helping their residents secure coverage.
Addressing Health Related Social Needs (HRSN) in 1115 demonstrations can help states improve coverage, access, and equity. This blog examines innovative state demonstrations and implications for cross agency partnerships.
Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) released two workbooks to help communities recognize data as an important asset in improving health equity.
In this blog, specialists talk about the program's beginnings, partnerships development, and outcomes in promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in public health emergency preparedness.
In this blog, ASTHO asked her to reflect on her experience and role leading public health communications for the nation’s capital.
This blog examines state legislation related to newborn screenings and how they reflect the importance and impact of screening programs.
This blog examines and maps states that are using publicly available dashboards to share key data points as they monitor enrollment transitions throughout the unwinding.
This blog examines states' plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress.
This blog discusses actions insurance regulators can take to hold providers accountable and meet affordability goals.
This blog discusses the agenda for the event and benefits of joining the Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum.
This blog discusses federal support for states looking to expand postpartum coverage through Medicaid.
This blog examines dengue concerns for the United States, the development of early warning systems in the U.S affiliated Pacific Islands, and vaccine implementation in Puerto Rico.
This report analyzes healthcare coverage and eligibility of nonelderly noncitizens compared with the entire nonelderly population of the US.
This fact sheet examines mammogram utilization among women ages 50 to 64 enrolled in private health plans.
This blog examines how two newly-released proposed rules from CMS could reshape the federal regulatory landscape for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
This blog reviews selected policies tied to the PHE and evaluates how their expiration will impact consumers’ access to services.
This blog compares Washington’s “selective procurement” approach with Colorado’s requirement that all carriers offer public option plans.
This episode shares insight into atypical cross-sector partnerships that offer great potential to align for better outcomes.
This report examines how states coordinate across Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
This blog examines how public health could be impacted if the nation defaults on its debt.
This blog focuses on provisions of the final rule most of interest to State-Based Marketplaces and state insurance regulators.
This blog discusses how new CMS approvals in Oregon and Washington will protect health coverage for children and families during this Medicaid unwinding, minimizing coverage disruptions and easing transitions to new sources of health coverage.
This blog discusses that, while there are many factors that may affect the scale of coverage losses from procedural disenrollments, one of the significant concern is notices.
This blog aims to summarize the access rule which includes changes to Payment for Services, Medicaid Advisory Committees, and Home and Community-Based Services.
This blog focuses on market reforms and consumer assistance within the 2024 Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters.
This blog explores the evidence behind harm reduction strategies and shares practical steps for adopting this approach in healthcare settings.
This blog discusses why timely and reliable data are necessary for program planning, implementation, and monitoring/identifying resources to address and prevent ACEs.
This report highlights seven HiAP strategies that relate to the actions involved in state health improvement planning.
This analysis provides new evidence on transportation barriers to healthcare, and highlights the importance of public transit accessibility in promoting equitable access to care.
This blog examines Georgia’s efforts to address maternal mortality, partly through Medicaid postpartum coverage extension.
This blog provides a brief update on five public health state policy issues.
This report examines the BHPs in New York and Minnesota to explore how a BHP might play out in other states.
This blog discusses key themes underlying many of the 2024 rules including the administration's commitments to advancing health equity, improving the costumer experience, and expanding marketplace enrollment.
This blog discusses federal investment to address climate, state and territorial health agency climate capacity and funding, and states that have introduced legislation for climate change.
This blog discusses seven podcasts that can keep individuals informed, motivated, and ready to do their best work.
This blog examines how Alaska and Montana chose to link their Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System data to child health-focused datasets to learn more about early childhood adversity prevention opportunities in their states.
The blog discusses parameters for reentry 1115 demonstrations.
This brief presents considerations and emerging state strategies for bolstering the rural behavioral health crisis care continuum at each level of care.
This blog explores the updated model and its' three primary goals to risk adjustment.
This blog discusses the impact of the Braidwood Ruling depending on source of insurance.
A key component of the No Surprises Act is the federal process for determining how much a patient’s insurer or health plan will pay an out-of-network facility or provider. This blog reviews how the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process is working to date.
This webinar shares how health agencies can support HAI/AR staff recruitment and retention.
This blog includes a Q&A with two Iowa HHS employees to learn more about these recent efforts.
This blog explores the best path forward for public health leadership following the shift away from telework.
This blog discusses ASTHO's Breastfeeding Virtual Learning Series, which showcases emerging topics to advance breastfeeding equity.
This blog examines state efforts to expand broadband and disparities in access based on income level.
This blog reviews DIS' role during Covid-19 and barriers they still face–including underfunding and hiring challenges.
This journal article highlights findings from a study that estimated the association of PCC with access and affordability challenges among adults ages 18 to 64.
This blog reviews OMB's efforts to maintain, collect, and present federal data on race and ethnicity.
This blog outlines promising strategies for state-local collaboration for opioid settlement funding.
This blog discusses the critical role health agencies must play to support positive mental health outcomes through nutrition support and food assistance programs.
This blog examines issues including network adequacy, door-to-door enrollment assistance, re-enrollment decision hierarchies, and standardized plans.
This blog examines the importance of diversity in leadership at the local level, scholars' reflections on local leadership experiences, and advice for building inclusive workplaces.
This blog reviews data examining groups most disproportionately impacted by mental health challenges.
This blog examined Rhode Island's strategies to promote accessibility in response to Winter Storm Harper and additional actions to promote accessibility during emergencies.
This blog examines how states are preventing firearm injury and violence, and next steps for long-term fire arm violence reduction.
This report summarizes the results of an analysis of Marketplace premiums and insurer participation in each state in 2023 and changes between 2022 and 2023.
This blog examines comments about the NBPP from state departments of insurance and state-based marketplaces.
This blog discusses inequities in contraceptive care at community colleges and actions organizations and institutions can take to reduce them.
This blog discusses how rural communities are developing tailored, self-determined solutions to workforce shortages and rural hospital closures.
This webinar explores a new opportunity to improve access to care and services for people returning to the community from state prisons, county jails, and youth correctional facilities.
This report explores the dynamics influencing immunization information systems (IIS) and health information exchanges (HIE) data sharing and includes considerations for health, data, and technology leaders interested in advancing IIS and HIE connectivity.
Physical activity not only improves mobility, but can reduce the risk of moderate or severe functional limitations among older adults and people with disabilities. This blog discusses the benefits of physical activity and strategies to support increased physical activity.
This blog examines a new video series that will have unique topics and feature stories exploring the critical need for engagement of disability stakeholders and disability-led organizations as equity partners and methods to build capacity through this critical resource.
This blog discusses how states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor unwinding progress.
This report outlines practical approaches to guide health systems in meaningfully involving community members and being more accountable to the communities they serve.
This blog discusses opportunities and considerations to utilize strategies to minimize coverage loss as states reinstate Medicaid redeterminations.
This blog discusses the proposed revisions to OMB Directive No. 15 and comments and considerations from State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
This blog examines State Health Access Data Assistance Center's comments aimed at supporting the adoption of a revised set of federal standards for collecting race/ethnicity data.
This article discusses experts' reflections on the role of health centered assessments and approaches in decision-making related to health equity.
This blog discusses actions government officials have been taking to promote continuity of coverage to minimize the number of people who become uninsured or face a gap in coverage.
This blog discusses upcoming changes that will help ensure all school meals align with the dietary pattern outlined in the Dietary Guidelines.
This blog examines the role of breastfeeding in early childhood nutrition security, how states have been promoting breastfeeding and nutrition security, and recommendations for state and territorial agencies.
This report examines the quality of race and ethnicity data for Medicaid/CHIP-enrolled children in the 2018 and 2019 TAF.
This report estimates the effects and costs of two national policies that would limit the financial burdens of premiums for Part B and Part D faced by Medicare enrollees with low incomes.
This blog discusses how some states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress given the intense focus on coverage transitions during the unwinding.
This blog examines three key strategies Benefits Data Trust believes will help streamline the transition for government staff and Medicaid recipients.
This blog examines the fundamental differences in vaccine exemption type, their impact on a community, and strategies to reduce exemptions.
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health is leading a multi-phased project to assess whether identifying a set of key equity-related indicators and populating them into a centralized “Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool” could be a helpful, feasible, and reliable way of tracking and advancing health equity in Medicaid.
This brief examines past-due medical debt among non elderly adults and their families using nationally representative survey data collected in June 2022.
This blog reviews the primary drivers of the erosion occurring in ESI and identifies three recognized policy options to improve affordability: regulating prices, reducing anti-competitive behavior, and improving price transparency.
This factsheet shares the federal financial incentives for Medicaid expansion remaining available to non-expansion following the conclusion of the continuous coverage requirement. .
This report highlights how communities of color counter structural racism and oppression by creating culturally effective community-based programming that promotes equitable outcomes for people who use drugs.
This blog provides a checklist of actions state-based Marketplaces and state departments of insurance can take to reduce gaps in coverage and minimize disruptions in care.
This blog examines the importance of ERISA, NASHP's model act to prohibit anticompetitive contracts, and ERISA's implications.
This blog highlights updates to the Center On Health Insurance Reforms' Navigator Resource Guide to help consumers and enrollment assisters during the unwinding.
This webinar highlights how Denver Health, a health system in Colorado, is implementing a trauma-and resilience-informed approach into organizational policy and practice, while also focusing on addressing systemic racism and biases.
This blog highlights federal action limiting flavors for combustible cigarettes and cigars, cigarettes and other nicotine products; state bans on Tobacco flavors, including menthol.
This blog highlights the benefits of using federal matching funds to help states hire more people, raise wages, and temporarily bring back retired workers, and pay overtime.
As states prepare to unwind the COVID-19 pandemic-related Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and resume terminations of coverage as soon as April 1, this blog examines how they could streamline eligibility determinations for older adults and people with disabilities, who face unique challenges with the Medicaid enrollment and renewal process.
This webinar highlights promising strategies for inviting youth perspectives to inform pediatric practice transformation efforts.
This blog examines how working with trusted messengers and crafting informative and compelling legislative testimony could increase vaccine confidence among elected leaders and navigate current legislative sessions.
This publication presents a checklist that provides an overview of the minimum redetermination requirements states must follow, and identifies some common red flags that may indicate failures by the Medicaid agency to meet those requirements.
This commentary shares the story of Leah and her work ensuring that members of her community receive the support they need with the assistance of Medicaid.
This blog reviews a new report that explores the high stakes for children when the continuous coverage protection expires.
This blog examines Health Data for Action grantee Carrie McAdam-Marx's journey to take her research on insulin out-of-pocket costs to policymakers on Capitol Hill.
This blog presents findings from a study aimed at producing estimates of ACE exposure for different demographic groups.
This blog examines legislative initiatives to increase AED and CPR Training and challenges of equity in AED and CPR training.
This blog outlines the relevant reporting requirements that were included in the CAA and the corresponding reporting guidance provided by CMS.
This blog highlights the variety of activities undertaken to implement the family glitch fix.
This blog explores state initiatives to increase access to childcare services while ensuring licensed care centers and workforce.
This blog discusses how business’ place-based investments can advance health, wellbeing, and equity.
This issue brief outlines the ways in which such efforts can improve communication, lead to more effective and efficient programs, and result in ongoing collaboration with people who have experienced state-run systems and services.
This blog explores how State Interagency Councils on Homelessness (ICHs) can serve as a promising mechanism to coordinate various state and local partners and develop and implement plans to end homelessness.
This blog covers key considerations to account for as the unwinding begins, including a newly announced special enrollment period (SEP).
This fact sheet explores California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal initiatives that have a direct impact on seniors and people with disabilities while offering additional opportunities for California to address health equity and improve care for underserved populations.
On January 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved California’s request to provide a targeted set of Medicaid services to youth and adults in state prisons, county jails, and youth correctional facilities for up to 90 days prior to release.
This webinar highlights the importance of including fathers in patient and family engagement to improve pediatric care.
This webinar discusses opportunities to achieve engagement and trust between safety-net health systems and communities.
This blog examines recommendations state and territorial health officials should consider to strengthen trust within public health practice.
This blog examines state preventive services requirements and offers strategies states may want to pursue to close gaps in access to care.
