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5 Slide Series

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.

Assessment of Medicaid Expenditure and Capitation Trends From 2011-2021

This edition looks at state-level and national Medicaid spending trends, first overall and then by the share of Medicaid spending that is paid via capitation.
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Recent Death Trends by State, Grouped by Governor’s Political Party

This edition conveys tabulations on overall death rates and COVID death rates by state, including grouping states by the Governor’s political party.
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COVID-19 Deaths Across Time: Comparison of US Deaths in 2022 with Previous Years, by Age and Race Cohort

This edition looks at the progression of COVID deaths and death rates by year in different cohorts (e.g., age and race/ethnicity).
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Trends in Medicaid Use of Capitation

This edition looks at the progression of capitation contracting in the Medicaid program at the national and state levels. As s a percentage of total Medicaid spending, capitation contracting has grown 31.1% in FFY2013 to 55.9% in FFY2021. National Medicaid…
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MCO Financial Performance During COVID

This edition looks at the collective financial performance of a large group of MCOs across the 2018-2021 timeframe. Our key findings are that the health plans performed quite well during the COVID-impacted years of 2020 and 2021 – better than they…
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Stock Prices During COVID

This edition presents the progression of large publicly traded health companies’ stock prices from January 1, 2019 through July 1, 2022. Our key purpose was to summarize stock prices through the COVID pandemic relative to the year before the pandemic…
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Trends in Medicaid’s Average Costs Per Prescription

This edition presents our tabulations of Medicaid pharmacy cost and price trends. Some of our key findings: Nationwide Medicaid pre-rebate costs per prescription increased at an annual average rate of 5.6% from 2012-2021, led by an 11.9% annual rate of…
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Medicaid Pharmacy Usage During COVID

This edition quantifies the decrease in Medicaid prescription volume that has occurred during COVID, comparing usage during calendar years 2019, 2020, and 2021. The large decrease that has occurred – 16.4% from 2019 to 2021 on a per covered person…
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Medicaid Prescription Drug Benefit Management: Performance Comparison Across Different State Policy Approaches

We were enlisted by the Anthem Public Policy Institute to assess the cost-effectiveness of different states’ approaches to managing Medicaid prescription drug benefit.  States were grouped into five cohorts depending on the degree to which their Medicaid prescriptions are paid…
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Excess US Deaths in 2020 and 2021 by State, Age, and Race/Ethnicity Group

This edition of our 5 Slide Series examines excess deaths at the state level during the pandemic. Taking the difference of average monthly deaths during the pandemic and a pre-pandemic average, we find that states in the South and Southwest have experienced…
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