Plans extensively market their supplemental benefits; one of four MA enrollees report choosing their plans over traditional Medicare because of them. To learn more, the Commonwealth Fund and SSRS ...

To discourage price hikes on brand-name drugs, the IRA requires manufacturers to pay inflation rebates to Medicare if prices ...

In 2024, Texas increased supplemental payments for rural hospitals from $500 to $1,500 per birth, bringing the total compensation per Medicaid birth to $8,100. (For comparison, employer-sponsored ...

This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community ...

Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources but too often, it delays treatment patients ...

The Title X Family Planning Program provides equitable and reliable access to contraception nationwide and is a critical ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...

The “individual market” is a vital source of coverage for Americans who cannot get health insurance through their employer and do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, includi ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

Structural racism, poverty, and inequities in housing, education, and employment have created significant gaps in health outcomes. 1 Unequal rates of disease, treatment, and mortality ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance ...