Altarum 10. June updates for economics of health sector from @altarum A continued concern: Slow growth, job losses in employment for nursing and residential care facilities. This sector has still not regained the jobs it lost during COVID recession, PHE.

Updated: Missouri Medicaid DASHBOARD with data on enrollment, applications, managed care & geographic distribution for JUNE. Net enrollment has declined to 1.27 million; applications steady; pending applications drop to 16,931 CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis analysis: publichealth.wustl.edu/items/missouri…

Timothy McBride, PhD, co-director of CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis interviewed on Heritage Foundation plans to change Social Security policy in the long run.

July 2024 Update for Missouri Medicaid: Application Processing Improves Marginally in July; almost 18,000 applications still pending; Enrollment down 248,000 since unwinding began open.substack.com/pub/timothymcb…

July 2024 Update for Missouri Medicaid: Missouri Medicaid enrollment down 248,340 since unwinding of pandemic began Application Processing Improves Marginally in July; 18,000 applications still pending timothymcbride.substack.com/p/july-2024-up…

Updated: Missouri Medicaid DASHBOARD with data on enrollment, applications, managed care & geographic distribution for JULY. Enrollment at 1.3 million; applications up slightly to 23,439 CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis analysis: publichealth.wustl.edu/items/missouri…

July 2024 Update for Missouri Medicaid: The current enrollment in the Adult Expansion Group (AEG) is 329,306 in July 2024. Read more here from CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis analysis here: timothymcbride.substack.com/p/july-2024-up…

Financial Performance of Rural and Urban Hospitals in the Medicare Shared Savings Program This brief presents financial performance trends of hospitals who participated in Medicare's Shared Savings Program (SSP), 2011-2018. ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/628?utm… RUPRI Health Policy RUPRI

House Democrats pour more cash into Iowa, Virginia races politico.com/live-updates/2…

Financial Performance of Rural and Urban Hospitals in the Medicare Shared Savings Program apps.its.uiowa.edu/dispatch/messa… RUPRI Health Policy

A call for equity in digital health tool design - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis source.washu.edu/2024/09/a-call…

NEWS analysis from CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis: The uninsured rate in Missouri has dropped to 7.5% and since 2019, a period covering the Medicaid expansion and the pandemic, the uninsured rate has dropped from 10% to 7.5%. See: publichealth.wustl.edu/items/health-i… WashU Public Health

NEW analysis from CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis: The uninsured rate in Missouri dropped significantly from 13% in 2013 and 10% in 2019 to 7.5% in 2023. See: publichealth.wustl.edu/files/2024/09/… WashU Public Health

Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research CAHSPER, Washington University in St.Louis releases policy brief on key findings on MO health insurance coverage, 2008-23 Institute for Public Health Washington University in St. Louis publichealth.wustl.edu/center-release… WashU

August 2024 Update: Missouri Medicaid enrollment up 10,000 in last two months, suggesting normal patterns of growth in Medicaid are re-emerging after unwinding open.substack.com/pub/timothymcb…