Gender Equity in US Political Leadership
This edition of our 5 Slide Series quantifies the very low percentage of women serving in national political leadership positions.
Tag: Policy
Medicaid Prescription Drug Management: Quality Scores Compared Across Different Approaches
The Elevance Health Public Policy Institute engaged and worked with us to assess the degree to which quality scores on pharmacy-related measures were affected by the state’s Medicaid managed care program design features. The key issue assessed was whether quality…
Medication Adherence in Medicaid
Building upon our 2014 report titled Prescription Drug Adherence in Medicaid Managed Care, this report provides updated analyses performed on medication adherence, assesses the impacts of Medicaid expansion and the COVID-19 pandemic on medication adherence, and offers recommendations for further…
Medicaid Redeterminations
This edition conveys some of our perspectives related to the current reinstatement of Medicaid redeterminations. This is an important time period to capture (and share) detailed information on how Medicaid enrollees can best be successfully reached, as well as the…
Medicaid Enrollment Trends
This edition focuses on the share of the overall population that receives Medicaid, and how this percentage has trended throughout the past decade nationally and state by state. Between Medicaid expansion, COVID dynamics, and some shifts in the economy’s performance,…
Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension: A Review of Coverage by State and Postpartum Healthcare Utilization
This edition looks at state implementation of Medicaid postpartum coverage extension and Medicaid expansion by state. We also present rates of postpartum care utilization in the Medicaid population before and after implementation of postpartum coverage extension. As of March 2023,…
Assessment of Kentucky’s Medicaid Managed Care Program Impacts
The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care program. The key components of this assessment include: • Cost impacts of the Medicaid managed care program across the past two decades • Performance on…
Assessment of New Jersey’s Medicaid Prescription Drug Management Performance and Policy Options
The New Jersey Association of Health Plans enlisted the Menges Group to evaluate New Jersey’s Medicaid prescription drug costs and assess the potential impacts of a pharmacy carve-out approach, whereby the prescription drug benefit would be removed from the MCOs’…
County Level Coronavirus Tabulations in Selected States California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
This edition about the pandemic zooms in on California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, conveying county-level tabulations regarding the per capita rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases as of yesterday. We also show the number and proportion of Medicare beneficiaries in each…
Assessment of Virginia Medicaid Pharmacy Benefits Carve-Out Impacts
Some Virginia policymakers have indicated an interest in moving to a pharmacy “carve-out” within the Medicaid managed care program, whereby the state would instead manage the pharmacy benefit for MCO enrollees, including paying directly for drugs made available in the…