Key Implementers of U.S. Global Health Efforts
This brief provides an overview of the implementing organizations that received U.S. global health funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in FY 2015.
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Key Issues in Children’s Health Coverage
Issue BriefThis brief reviews children’s coverage today and examines what is at stake for children’s coverage in upcoming debates around CHIP funding, repeal and replacement of the ACA, and Medicaid restructuring.
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Medicaid’s Role: What’s at Stake Under a Block Grant or Per Capita Cap?
VideoThis video provides an overview of the people covered by Medicaid and how Medicaid funds are distributed across enrollment groups and on a per enrollee basis. The video also highlights the implications of reducing federal Medicaid funds through a block grant or per capita cap.
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10 FAQs: Medicare’s Role in End-of-Life Care
Fact SheetAbout eight of 10 of the 2.6 million people who died in the US in 2014 were people on Medicare, making Medicare the largest insurer of health care provided during the last year of life. These Frequently Asked Questions explain Medicare’s role in or coverage of end-of-life care, advance care planning, advance directives, and hospice care. They also provide information on Medicare spending on end-of-life care, changes to the physician fee schedule, and how related issues arose…
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Summary of the 2018 CHIP Funding Extension
Fact SheetOn January 22, 2018, Congress passed a six-year extension of CHIP funding as part of a broader continuing resolution to fund the federal government. Federal funding for CHIP had expired on September 30, 2017. Without additional funding available, states operated their CHIP programs using remaining funds from previous years. However, some states came close to exhausting funding, leading them to make contingency plans to reduce coverage and notify families of potential coverage reductions. In late…
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Global HIV/AIDS Financing Amidst Uncertainty
Event Date:EventOn Wednesday, April 18, 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center co-hosted a public discussion on the current state of financing for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The event also included the launch of the latest global health financing analysis by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). IHME’s latest analysis features a special focus on the past 20 years…
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The USG International Family Planning Landscape: Defining Approaches to Address Uncertainties in Funding and Programming – Discussion Summary
Issue BriefThis brief summarizes a discussion held in January 2018 to discuss international family planning efforts in the context of funding and policy uncertainty. Convened by the Center for Global Development and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the discussion brought together a range of stakeholders including US government officials, other donors and international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector.
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Medicare’s Part A trust fund will be depleted in 2026, three years earlier than the 2017 projection.
FeatureSource Intermediate projections from 2005-2018 annual Reports of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
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Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: FY 2015 & 2016
Issue BriefThis report provides an overview of Medicaid financing and Medicaid spending and enrollment growth with a focus on state fiscal years 2015 and 2016 (FY 2015 and FY 2016.) Findings are based on interviews and data provided by state Medicaid directors as part of the 15th annual survey of Medicaid directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia conducted by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) survey and Health Management…
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The Affordable Care Act Drove Record Annual Increases in Enrollment and Total Medicaid Spending Nationally in FY 2015, As Newly Eligible Adults gained Coverage in Expansion States
News ReleaseHigh Federal Match for Adult Expansion Group Contributed to Substantially Slower State Medicaid Spending Growth in Expansion States Compared to Non-Expansion States Survey Also Finds States Relying More on Managed Care, Undertaking Delivery System Reforms The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion resulted in record increases in Medicaid enrollment and spending nationally in fiscal year 2015, with both rising an average of nearly 14 percent, according to the 15th annual 50-state Medicaid budget survey by the…