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This data note presents an interactive map that tracks which states have made declarations defining abortions as non-essential or elective health procedures and effectively blocking the provision of abortion services during the outbreak.
Anna Gutierrez Bahn is a Senior Digital Strategist at KFF, where she develops and executes social media and digital campaigns to connect audiences with timely health policy research. Anna manages KFF’s social media channels and homepage, develops strategies to reach target audiences, contributes to editorial planning and creative projects, analyzes performance metrics to strengthen digital outreach, and works across teams to make complex information more accessible and engaging. Before joining KFF, Anna was the Communications…
Recently released data show that Medicare Advantage, the private plan alternative to traditional Medicare, now covers half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries. As the role of Medicare Advantage grows, so will interest in understanding how well the program serves the increasingly diverse group of enrollees who receive their Medicare coverage from private insurers.
This brief describes 10 key points about the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement, highlighting data and analyses that can inform the unwinding process as well as recent legislation and guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help states prepare for the end of the continuous enrollment provision.
To capture the state of television marketing activities and consider the implications for people with Medicare, KFF analyzed ad data compiled by the Wesleyan Media Project, that were obtained from Vivvix (formerly Kantar) CMAG, a data analytics and consulting firm, and were coded by the Wesleyan Media Project in collaboration with KFF. The data set included all English-language TV ads that aired across national and local markets on broadcast television or national cable, from October…
State Medicaid strategies to address the behavioral health workforce shortage fall into four key areas: increasing rates, reducing burden, extending the workforce, and incentivizing participation.
This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2023, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Matt Perry, senior vice president for human resources, leads all related initiatives at KFF, including recruitment, benefits and compensation, employee relations and engagement, and workforce training. Perry also oversees the organization’s inclusion, diversity, equity, and access efforts. Prior to joining KFF in 2023, Perry was vice president of people with Outlier.org, an education technology company. He also served as chief people officer for the Kapor Center, a social impact organization focused on strengthening demographic diversity…
This data note examines rural hospitals’ operating margins in recent years. After seeing higher margins early in the pandemic, likely due to government relief funds, rural hospitals now face renewed challenges, especially in states that have not expanded Medicaid.
A KFF analysis finds that outreach to the new 988 number for the national suicide prevention and crisis hotline increased after its implementation in mid-July, then steadied until December 2022, when it rose again. Text volume increased more than 700 percent compared to the year prior but remains a smaller share of overall outreach. Since the launch of 988, Lifeline has received over 2.1 million contacts---consisting of over 1.43 million calls, over 416,000 chats, and…
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