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  • Building the AI Hospital

    Podcast

    Walk into the emergency room at Israel’s largest hospital and the first clinician to take your history may be an AI avatar — with a physician signing off on every recommendation. Israel’s Sheba Medical Center is building what could become the first fully AI-based hospital by 2030. Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba's Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief AI officer, talks with Chip about what that means for patients. During their conversation, Dr. Zimlichman…

  • Medicaid State Fact Sheets 2024

    Medicaid State Fact Sheets

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    What percentage of people are covered by Medicaid in your state? Our State Medicaid fact sheets provide a snapshot with key data for Medicaid in every state related to current coverage, access, and financing, as well as a politics section for each state.

  • Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions

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    This page displays an interactive map of the current status of state decisions on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Additional Medicaid expansion resources are listed (with links) below the map.

  • Green Card Processing Backlogs for Refugees and Asylees Could Have Implications for Health Coverage and Care 

    Issue Brief

    This data note highlights changes in green card (I-485) application processing for refugees and asylees between fiscal year (FY) 2021 and FY2025, as well as across the first three quarters of FY2025 to FY2026 (since FY2026 data are only available through the third quarter). It discusses the implications of these trends for access to federally funded health coverage following eligibility changes under the 2025 reconciliation law.

  • What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for SSI Applicants?

    What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for SSI Applicants?

    Issue Brief

    Medicaid work requirements may make it more difficult for some SSI applicants to maintain coverage due to the added complexity of navigating the verification process for the medical frailty exclusion. KFF's policy analysis explains why SSI applicants are particularly at risk of going uninsured under the new Medicaid rules.

  • What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for People with Disabilities Waiting for Medicare Coverage?

    What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for People with Disabilities Waiting for Medicare Coverage?

    Issue Brief

    This analysis finds that Medicaid through the expansion pathway covered over 1 in 4 SSDI applicants and beneficiaries waiting to become eligible for Medicare (120,300 people out of a total 415,300 in 2023). In future years, people applying for and new to SSDI may experience difficulties maintaining Medicaid prior to becoming eligible for Medicare because of the new work requirements.

  • AI in Health Care: Who Gets Left Behind?

    Podcast

    Health care's AI future is being built right now. The open question is “for whom?” Dr. Uché Blackstock — emergency physician, former associate professor at NYU School of Medicine, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and author of The New York Times bestseller “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” — joins host Chip Kahn to argue that AI governance should be shaped not only by regulators and review boards, but by…

  • Women’s Access to Fertility Care

    Issue Brief

    This analysis presents findings from the 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey on women's reported need for and use of fertility services.