Custom State Reports April 5, 2018 Interactive An interactive tool for building custom reports compiling health-related data for a single state or multiple states. Reports can be shared and downloaded.
Under the President’s FY2019 budget, Medicare Part D enrollees would pay more out of pocket before qualifying for catastrophic coverage, but nothing after. February 15, 2018 Slide
Summary of Recent and Proposed Changes to Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage and Reimbursement February 15, 2018 Issue Brief On February 9, 2018 the President signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which included some provisions related to Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage. Shortly thereafter, the Office of Management and Budget released the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget, which also included several proposals related to Medicare Part D drug coverage and Part B drug reimbursement. This brief summarizes these recently enacted and proposed changes.
Analysis: Insurance Riders to Cover Abortion Services Not Available to Women in States That Restrict Abortion Coverage February 14, 2018 News Release In 10 states, insurance plans are currently banned from including abortion as a covered service in state-regulated private plans — all individually purchased policies and fully-insured group plans. Most of these laws do not include exceptions for rape, incest, or health endangerment. In nine of these states, insurers may sell…
Abortion Riders: Women Living in States with Insurance Restrictions Lack Abortion Coverage Options February 13, 2018 Issue Brief This data note explores the extent to which abortion riders are available in the states that restrict abortion coverage in state-regulated private plans and permit insurance carriers to sell abortion riders.
Changes to “Public Charge” Inadmissibility Rule: Implications for Health and Health Coverage August 12, 2019 Fact Sheet A final rule by the Trump Administration would make changes to “public charge” policies that govern how use of public benefits may affect individuals’ immigration status. This fact sheet provides an overview of the proposed changes and their implications for legal immigrant families and their predominantly U.S.-born citizen children.
Don’t Overhype the New Health Care Venture February 8, 2018 Perspective In an Axios column, Drew Altman dissects the many dimensions of the health cost problem and discusses why the Bezos-Buffett-Dimon initiative is unlikely to have much impact on the larger health cost problems the public and policymakers care about most.
Estimates Suggest That Rx Drugs Will Continue to Represent an Increasing Portion of Overall Health Spending February 1, 2018 Slide
How Are Health Centers Responding to the Funding Delay? February 1, 2018 Fact Sheet Community health centers see over 25 million patients in medically underserved rural and urban areas throughout the country. A key source of their federal funding expired September 30, 2017. This fact sheet looks at how health centers are responding to the funding delay and uncertainty.
Spending on opioid addiction and overdose treatment has increased each year in the last decade April 12, 2018 Slide