Our 5 Slide Series allows us to regularly present objective analyses and trends on issues we believe are of interest and share our findings through data tabulations and visualizations.
This edition delves into NCQA’s Medicaid health plan overall quality ratings for performance years 2022 and 2023. A key component of our analyses involved creating enrollment weighted average scores for the Medicaid health plans operating in multiple states, and similar average scores across the health plans serving Medicaid in each state.
This edition focuses on Medicaid MCO procurements, an area where our company conducts vast project work. We describe a few actions states can take to get the most value out of their procurements. We also offer some thoughts regarding how states can better overcome a protest process that seems to have become increasingly problematic.
- Keywords: Medicaid Procurement
This final edition of our summer series on Suicides, Homicides, and Gun Deaths provides weblinks to roughly 20 examples of other organizations’ work in the same topic areas.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide Suicide
This edition focuses on the choices all households make regarding having a gun in their home (or not). The statistical evidence is profoundly in favor of households making a “no gun here” decision, and some of that evidence is summarized herein. However, this objective evidence is at odds with the widespread belief that possessing a gun will make a home safer. The remaining slides focus on how to help the evidence overcome the beliefs.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership
This edition quantifies death rates, and firearm death rates, by race/ethnicity, gender, and age.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide Suicide
This edition of our Gun Death Series focuses on homicides. Similar to suicides, the degree to which guns exist in a community are strongly correlated with the rate of homicide deaths. The states with the highest proportion of household gun ownership have a 78% higher rate of firearm homicides than the states in the lowest quartile of household gun ownership.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide
This edition continues our summer series on gun deaths, focusing on suicides. Suicide rates vary considerably by state, and these slides demonstrate that the variation across states is very highly correlated with household gun ownership rates. The firearm suicide rate in the cohort of states with the highest gun ownership was 2.7 times above the firearm suicide rate in the state group with the lowest rates of household gun ownership.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Suicide
This is the first edition of a new prong of our 5 Slide Series focusing on household gun ownership and its role in suicide and homicide deaths.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide Suicide
This 5 Slide Series edition provides our tabulations and analysis of NCQA’s Quality Ratings for Medicaid MCOs juxtaposed with the specialized accreditations NCQA has awarded to these health plans.
This 5 Slide Series edition provides our tabulations and analysis of the NCQA Quality Ratings for Medicaid MCOs (Rating Year 2022-2023).