What Does the Recent Literature Say About Medicaid Expansion?: Impacts on Sexual and Reproductive Health
This brief summarizes recent studies on the impacts of Medicaid expansion on a range of sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
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Climate-Related Health Risks Among Workers: Who is at Increased Risk?
Issue BriefAdults of color, noncitizens, and adults with lower educational attainment and incomes are disproportionately employed in occupations with increased climate-related health risks. Moreover, workers in occupations with increased climate-related health risks are more likely to be uninsured, contributing to challenges accessing health care.
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Privately Insured People with Depression and Anxiety Face High Out-of-Pocket Costs
Issue BriefThis analysis finds that privately insured adults who were treated for depression and/or anxiety in 2021 spent almost twice as much on annual out-of-pocket costs compared to enrollees who were not treated for a mental health diagnosis.
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What Do We Know About People with HIV Who Are Not Engaged In Regular HIV Care?
Issue BriefThis analysis uses nationally representative data to assess the characteristics and experiences of people with HIV who are out of regular HIV care. Reaching and engaging people with HIV who are not in care involves addressing the complex and systemic barriers they face, which impede both their health and wellbeing and also the HIV response in the U.S. more broadly.
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Rise in Use of Mental Health Apps Raises New Policy Issues
Issue BriefUse of digital behavioral health services increased during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person visits were limited. This brief examines how different types of mental health apps are used, how federal policies during the pandemic affected the scope of services they could provide, and key issues to watch.
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Fiscal Implications for Medicaid of Enhanced Federal Funding and Continuous Enrollment
Issue BriefThis brief examines how Medicaid spending changed during the continuous enrollment period and estimates the amount of enhanced federal funding states received during the continuous enrollment period.
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Medicaid Managed Care Network Adequacy & Access: Current Standards and Proposed Changes
Issue BriefThis brief describes current network adequacy and availability standards for Medicaid managed care plans, presents related findings from KFF’s 22nd annual Medicaid budget survey, and summarizes proposed changes to network adequacy and access rules in the Managed Care NPRM.
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Employment Among Immigrants and Implications for Health and Health Care
Issue BriefThis brief examines socioeconomic characteristics and employment patterns among immigrant workers and examines how they compare to U.S.-born workers, including differences among college-educated workers.
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10 Things to Know About the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision
Issue BriefMedicaid enrollment increased since the start of the pandemic, primarily due to the continuous enrollment provision.KFF estimates that between 8 million and 24 million people will lose Medicaid coverage during the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision.The Medicaid continuous enrollment provision stopped “churn” among Medicaid enrollees.States approaches to unwinding the continuous enrollment provision vary.Maximizing streamlined renewal processes can promote continuity of coverage as states unwind the continuous enrollment provision.States have obtained temporary waivers to pursue…
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The New Pandemic Fund: Overview and Key Issues for the U.S.
Issue BriefThis brief offers an overview of the new multilateral global health financing mechanism known as the Pandemic Fund, which is housed at the World Bank. The brief reviews the evolution of the Fund, its current financial status and donors, U.S. engagement, and policy issues going forward.