State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19 May 16, 2022 Issue Brief This issue brief summarizes federal and state standards related to nursing home staffing prior to COVID-19 and builds on existing information by identifying changes to state minimum staffing requirements adopted since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also examine state legislative and regulatory actions since the onset of the pandemic that directly affect worker wages and training requirements.
State Eligibility for Medicaid Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program (BCCTP) May 13, 2022 State Indicator
Medicaid Reimbursement Policies for Immediate Postpartum Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) May 13, 2022 State Indicator
Analysis: The Vast Majority of Physicians Accept New Patients, Including Patients With Medicare and Private Insurance May 12, 2022 News Release Despite occasional anecdotal reports of people having trouble finding a doctor who takes their insurance, KFF researchers find in a new analysis that the vast majority of non-pediatric office-based physicians accept new Medicare patients, as well as new private insurance patients. Eighty-nine percent of such physicians accepted new Medicare patients…
Most Office-Based Physicians Accept New Patients, Including Patients With Medicare and Private Insurance May 12, 2022 Issue Brief This brief examines the share of non-pediatric office-based physicians accepting new patients with Medicare or private insurance and how these rates have changed over time and vary by physician specialties, geographic areas, and physician and practice characteristics across Medicare and private insurance. This analysis further examines the extent to which non-pediatric physicians are opting out of Medicare, by specialty and state.