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Rural Health Federal Funding: Impacts by Year; Medicaid’s Key Role in Rural Health (Edition 2)

This edition examines the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) in the context of Medicaid and rural health, comparing the timeline of federal Medicaid reductions with RHTP investments and assessing how state-proposed initiatives align with key rural health indicators.

Apr. 22, 2026 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Expenditures, Medicaid, Policy

Year One of the Rural Health Transformation Program Awards: Key Insights from Awards and Early Implementation (Edition 1)

This edition focuses on the Rural Health Transformation Program, the $50 billion fund established by H.R. 1 and distributed across all 50 states from FY26 through FY30.

Apr. 22, 2026 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Expenditures, Medicaid, Policy

Assessment of NCQA Medicaid MCO Quality Ratings Across the Two Most Recent Measurement Years

This edition assesses changes and trends in NCQA Medicaid MCO quality ratings across measurement years 2023 and 2024.

Oct. 20, 2025 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Medicaid, Policy, Quality

Timeline of Key Medicaid Provisions in One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)

This edition summarizes major Medicaid changes in OBBBA, organized by implementation timeline, from 2025 to 2030. Key provisions introduce changes to eligibility, benefits, and state financing.

Jul. 21, 2025 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Medicaid, Policy

Assessment of NCQA Medicaid MCO Quality Ratings Across Performance Years 2022 and 2023

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…

Nov. 13, 2024 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Medicaid, Policy, Quality

Medicaid MCO Innovations to Address the Opioid Epidemic

This edition provides excerpts of opioid-related questions that have appeared in Medicaid MCO procurements. These slides demonstrate some of the ways in which states are using their request for proposal (RFP) process to promote innovation and elevate the MCOs’ mechanisms…

Apr. 25, 2024 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Medicaid, Policy, Prescription Drugs

Costs and Benefits of Enhancing Private Duty/Shift Nursing Payment Rates in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Program

This report was enlisted by the Pennsylvania Homecare Association to evaluate the need for enhancing Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Private Duty Nursing (PDN) payment rates. Through a mixture of quantitative analyses and real-life patient examples, this report highlights the anticipated benefits this…

Apr. 25, 2024 Download Full Report

KEYWORDS:Expenditures, Medicaid, Policy

Quantifying the Impact of State-Level Policy Changes on Opioid Prescription (and Unit) Volume

This edition looks at various state-level policy changes seeking to restrict inappropriate use of opioids, conducting a pre-versus-post comparison of prescription opioid usage related to the dates of these policy changes.

Mar. 30, 2024 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Medicaid, Policy, Prescription Drugs

Costs and Benefits of Enhancing Private Duty Nursing Payment Rates in Colorado’s Medicaid Program

This report was commissioned by the Home Care and Hospice Association of Colorado. The report derives the Medicaid payment rate increase needed to attract adequate private duty nursing (PDN) service capacity in Colorado. We’ve estimated the cost to the Medicaid…

Mar. 12, 2024 Download Full Report

KEYWORDS:Expenditures, Medicaid, Policy

Leadership Positions: Gender Mix in the Workplace in the United States

This edition quantifies the large gender gaps that exist at the leadership level within U.S. companies. For example, females currently comprise only 10.6% of Fortune 500 Company CEOs. Females are getting closer to parity among attorneys (38%) and physicians (37%),…

Jan. 31, 2024 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Policy