The States of Health

States working to mitigate Medicaid coverage loss associated with HR 1 can incorporate Medicaid Family Planning Program (MFPP) coverage into their strategies by making MFPP enrollment easy, expanding covered services, and ensuring patients know how and where to use their coverage.  More

In the absence of a national health workforce strategy in the United States, individual states, including Missouri, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, have developed and implemented state-level graduate medical education (GME) strategies to “grow their own” primary care workforce. The challenge will be diffusing the lessons learned from their efforts across states.  More

More than 2.3 million women of reproductive age live in maternity care deserts — counties with no hospitals offering obstetric care and no OB-GYN or certified nurse-midwife in practice.  More

Using estimates from RAND Health, our new Data Dashboard shows at a high level how state Medicaid funds will be affected by changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill.  More

Emergency medical services (EMS) are basic lifesaving infrastructure for any community.  More

The fragmented multi-payer system in the United States creates powerful disincentives against the evidence-based interventions most likely to improve health and control costs: universal, prevention-centered care delivered where people live, work, and gather.  More

When studying heat maps produced by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Department, and digging into the endless tables of data…  More

For more than a decade, US health policy has been moving toward value-based care, or paying for health outcomes rather than the number of services delivered. And yet, even within many value-based models, preventive care often remains financially difficult to sustain.  More