Source: Faith Leonard and Gretchen Jacobson, “What Does the Decline in Medicare Part D Plan Availability Mean for ...

With sufficient funding, states can utilize Medicaid SPAs and Section 1115 waivers, MCO contracts, and Title X grants to ...

Under H.R. 1, states must require that low-income people meet work-reporting requirements to qualify for Medicaid under the ...

Insured patients, especially those outside urban areas, described a shortage of health care providers, both for primary care ...

H.R. 1’s Medicaid provider tax changes are projected to reduce federal investments by nearly $226 billion over 10 years and cause 2.4 million people to lose coverage.

These developments have prompted states to preserve scientifically backed services where they can: state-regulated private insurance plans, Medicaid, and public health programs. State policymakers ...

In 2004, Congress authorized special needs plans (SNPs) as a new type of Medicare Advantage plan that enables insurers to offer customized approaches for high-need beneficiaries. There are three types ...

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 ...

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...

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 ...

On June 17, six U.S. Supreme Court justices joined an opinion penned by Justice Stephen Breyer concluding that California v. Texas, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), should be ...

Maternal morbidity encompasses physical and psychological conditions resulting from, or aggravated by, pregnancy. These conditions do not necessarily lead to death, but they can have a negative impact ...