Philanthropy @ Work – Reports

Building on estimates of coverage losses among Medicaid beneficiaries subject to work experiments, the new brief presents estimates of the potential impact of Medicaid work experiments on beneficiaries who are patients of health centers, and ultimately, the implications for health centers and the wider communities they serve.

These reports focus on Montana’s Medicaid program and recommend ways to strengthen the state’s benefit package as it relates to homelessness, detailing the business case for doing so.

Texans say health care is the toughest living expense for them to afford. More than half (55 percent) of Texans say it’s difficult for them to pay for health care, including more than a quarter (27 percent) who say it’s “very difficult.”

The analysis updates a 2014 report, providing a county-by-county look at the number of jobs, new Medicaid enrollees and economic growth that would result from the state expanding Medicaid.

Even after controlling for differences in local prices and health status, there was a 34 percent difference between the lowest- and highest-spending counties’ per capita Medicare spending in 2016.

The new report explores how fragmented care settings and payment systems, unclear regulations, and information gaps all play a role in limiting the guidance hospital staff can provide patients and their families in arranging post-acute care.

The analysis recommends a 10-year reauthorization of the Health Center Fund, with additional funding targeted to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts, as well as expanded Medicaid coverage in the 10 high-burden, non-expansion states.

This new report uses a life course analysis—which is based on the premise that health is a consequence of multiple determinants and contexts that change as a person develops—to focus on the risk factors for domestic violence perpetration and to highlight opportunities for prevention.