This Center for Health Care Strategies policy brief draws insights from 10 states with programs for low-income childless adults to shed light on the likely care needs and costs of the 16 to 20 million new Medicaid beneficiaries who will be brought into the program in 2014. A significant subset...

This chartbook for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides comprehensive information on Medicaid beneficiaries who use mental health and substance abuse services and places the findings in a broad policy context.

States that contract with health plans to provide comprehensive Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible enrollees in nursing facilities can work with these plans to reduce avoidable hospitalizations.

Over 1.2 million seriously disabled Americans under age 65—including as many as 400,000 without health insurance—are currently in the two-year waiting period for Medicare coverage, according to this new report. Eliminating this waiting period would provide stable health insurance...

This brief presents noteworthy trends and patterns in the use and costs of prescription drugs for Medicaid beneficiaries from 1999 to 2009. It builds on previous annual tables and chartbooks, and describes trends in drug usage and costs. The brief emphasizes trends for beneficiaries with...

States have undertaken a wide range of efforts to evaluate and report on their Medicaid managed care programs to help ensure that public dollars are being put to good use and that Medicaid beneficiaries are receiving high-quality, efficiently administered care. The report looks at how four...