H.R. 1’s Medicaid provider tax changes are projected to reduce federal investments by nearly $226 billion over 10 years and cause 2.4 million people to lose coverage.

Under H.R. 1, states must require that low-income people meet work-reporting requirements to qualify for Medicaid under the ...

Source: Faith Leonard and Gretchen Jacobson, “What Does the Decline in Medicare Part D Plan Availability Mean for ...

With sufficient funding, states can utilize Medicaid SPAs and Section 1115 waivers, MCO contracts, and Title X grants to ...

Insured patients, especially those outside urban areas, described a shortage of health care providers, both for primary care ...

These developments have prompted states to preserve scientifically backed services where they can: state-regulated private insurance plans, Medicaid, and public health programs. State policymakers ...

How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic? Every year, the Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance uses the latest data available to assess how well the health care ...

Medical debt, or personal debt incurred from unpaid medical bills, is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. 1 Almost a third of working age U.S. adults are currently in debt because of ...

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...

Summary: Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to ...

Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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 ...