On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Health Insurance Exchanges 2019 Open Enrollment Report, finding that approximately 11.4 million consumers selected or were automatically reenrolled in coverage during the 2019 enrollment period. This figure is a decrease from 11.8 million consumers during the 2018 enrollment period. 24 percent of…
Read More »The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute this week released the 2019 County Health Rankings & Roadmap Report, which assesses the health status of all counties in the United States. The Rankings help counties understand what influences how healthy residents are and how long they will live. By…
Read More »The Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) released a 2019 update to their report on county medically indigent programs (MIA) on Thursday. This report is intended to provide an overview, background, and history of county MIA programs, as well as financing and current challenges with programs. Included in this year’s update is a conclusion that county…
Read More »This week, the Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) published two major briefs on the future of health reform in California: “Mapping the Future of Medi-Cal” and “Mapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance.” Both reports offer basic background information and focus on significant upcoming issues likely to engage policymakers and stakeholders over the coming years….
Read More »The California Budget & Policy Center (CBPC) this week released a data brief on undocumented California adults and health coverage, finding that nearly nine in 10 undocumented adults with low incomes lack coverage. Only approximately three percent of undocumented low-income adults had public coverage and approximately seven percent had private coverage; the remaining approximately 89…
Read More »On Wednesday, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment options, finding that despite the fact that the three U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications are safe and effective, most individuals who could benefit from the treatments do not receive them. Further, the report…
Read More »On Thursday, California State Auditor Elaine Howle released a report, “Department of Health Care Services: Millions of Children in Medi-Cal Are Not Receiving Preventive Health Services.” The audit report determined that an average of 2.4 million children in Medi-Cal per year did not receive all required preventive health services between FY 2013-14 and FY 2017-18….
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently published “Preventing Violence in California Data Brief 1: Overview of Homicide and Suicide Deaths in California” which presents information on violent deaths in the state through a broad overview of the prevalence and burden of homicides and suicides. The resource was developed to inform and support continuing…
Read More »This week, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) published a review of the state’s Active Transportation Program (ATP), administered by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) in coordination with the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans). ATP provides funding to infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects that facilitate travelers being physically active through means such as biking and walking….
Read More »This week, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Well Being Trust (WBT) released results of a new analysis of mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), finding that more than 150,000 Americans died from alcohol- and drug-induced causes and suicides in 2017. This amount is more than twice…
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