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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.

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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Comparison of US Deaths During 2020 and 2021 With Previous Years

This edition examines the impact of the pandemic on overall deaths in 2020 and 2021. Comparing excess deaths (deaths above the pre-COVID annual average) at the national level from April 2020 to December 2021, we find that annual deaths in the…
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Latest COVID 19 Case, Death, and Vaccination Figures; States Seeing Largest Increase in COVID 19 Deaths and Cases in Recent Weeks

This edition reexamines COVID case, death, and vaccination trends in the wake of the new (potentially more contagious) Omicron variant. Cases and deaths in 2021 have already eclipsed 2020 figures. More than 28 million cases have been reported in 2021…
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Medicaid Spending by State During Fiscal Year 2020

This edition of our 5 Slide Series examines state Medicaid spending during Federal Fiscal Year 2020. Using expenditure reports from CMS, we calculated the share of each state’s Medicaid spending that occurred via capitation. Capitation represented the majority (52.6%) of…
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Pediatric COVID Trends

This edition revisits pediatric COVID-19 trends in the United States. Schools have now been opened for several weeks, providing an opportunity to assess the initial effects of student gatherings in classrooms. We observe decreasing, albeit still extremely high, pediatric case…
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Recent COVID-19 Death Rate Trends, Preliminary Look at Pediatric COVID Trends

In this edition of our 5 Slide Series, we return to presenting COVID death trends, as the pandemic’s recent resurgence merits significant attention. Average daily deaths across the prior 7-day period were 361 on June 13, 274 on July 13,…
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