Integrated Care Plans Didn’t Boost Medicaid Enrollment for the Poorest Seniors
Chart of the Day: Medicare-Medicaid Plans—Created to Streamline Care for Dually Eligible Individuals—Failed to Increase Medicaid Participation in High-Poverty Communities
Research & Policy Updates
Turning Upheaval into Opportunity for U.S. Health Information
Six Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Europe About Protecting Health Data Linkages
Participation in Medicare Advantage Risk-Based Provider Payments Shows Little Impact on Care Delivery
Moving from Fee-for-Service to Risk-Based Contracts Hasn't Dramatically Changed Patient Care, Raising Questions About How to Make These Models More Effective
Black and Hispanic Children Have Higher Death Rates Than White Children After In-Hospital CPR
Equitably Improving Care for Hospitalized Kids Who Experience Cardiac Arrest Requires Hospital-Level Changes, LDI Fellows Say
Understanding the Evidence: SNAP and Health
Six Studies That Highlight How Losing SNAP Can Raise Food Insecurity and Affect Health
Even When SNAP Payments Resume, More Food Cuts Will Affect Millions of Americans
Temporary Shutdown Losses are Only the Beginning: New Rules Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will Shrink SNAP Benefits, and Worsen Food Insecurity for Millions Across the U.S.
U.S. Food Policy at a Turning Point: Time to Remove Ultra-Processed Foods from Our Plates
A New Call to Action Urges Three Ways State and Local Leaders Can Act To Ban Additives, Improve Food Labels, and Restrict Marketing to Children
New Model Predicts Stimulant Overdose Risk Among Medicaid Patients
LDI Fellows Used Medicaid Data to Identify Individuals at Highest Risk for Cocaine- and Methamphetamine-Related Overdoses, Paving the Way for Targeted Prevention
Medicare Advantage Narrows Some Racial Gaps in Preventive Care, but Disparities Persist
Medicare Advantage Modestly Cut Black–White Disparities in Chronic Disease Prevention Compared to Traditional Medicare, but Care Gaps Remain for Latinx Populations
Hospitals Rarely Use Z Codes to Document Patients’ Social Risks
Billing Codes That Flag Food, Job, or Housing Insecurity in Medical Records are Underused for the Sickest Medicare Patients
Cash Transfers and Healthy Birth Outcomes
Promising New Evidence and What’s Next
Black Life Expectancy Shows Sharp Geographic Divide: Cities Gained, While Midwest and Rural Areas Fell Back
From 1990 to 2019, Black Life Expectancy Rose Most in Major Metros and the Northeast—but Gains Stalled or Reversed in Rural Areas and the Midwest, Especially for Younger Adults