During the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacies emerged as critical vaccine access sites, overtaking physicians’ offices, community ...
Reliable access to comprehensive contraceptive services in Medicaid has led to lower rates of unintended pregnancy and improved the health and economic well-being of women and their families. However, ...
Plans extensively market their supplemental benefits; one of four MA enrollees report choosing their plans over traditional Medicare because of them. To learn more, the Commonwealth Fund and SSRS ...
To discourage price hikes on brand-name drugs, the IRA requires manufacturers to pay inflation rebates to Medicare if prices ...
In 2024, Texas increased supplemental payments for rural hospitals from $500 to $1,500 per birth, bringing the total compensation per Medicaid birth to $8,100. (For comparison, employer-sponsored ...
This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community health center (CHC) patients. The focus is on privately insured CHC patients ...
Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources but too often, it delays treatment patients urgently need. A new framework offers a middle path: applying prior ...
The Title X Family Planning Program provides equitable and reliable access to contraception nationwide and is a critical funding stream for building and maintaining the overall health of people in the ...
Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...
The Impact of Proposed Federal Medicaid Work Requirements on Hospital Revenues and Financial Margins
Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...
Structural racism, poverty, and inequities in housing, education, and employment have created significant gaps in health outcomes. 1 Unequal rates of disease, treatment, and mortality ...
This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...
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