Rapidly rising health insurance premiums are prompting Little Rock employers to shift more costs to workers, who are finding coverage increasingly difficult to afford, according to this new Community Tracking Study report.

Compared with the hospital and health plan contract disputes and financial woes of two years ago, the Boston health care market has stabilized as hospitals and plans regained their financial footing, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.

Despite the perception that few people are served by public psychiatric hospitals, they play a critical role in the continuum of care for people with mental illness. Although the capacity of these hospitals has diminished as a result of deinstitutionalization, they continue to serve people with...

Some experts believe that U.S. hospital capacity—especially emergency and inpatient services—is being stretched to its limits. Using data from the Community Tracking Study, the authors examine constrained hospital services, contributing factors, and hospital responses. They...

While the causes of rapidly rising medical malpractice insurance premiums remain contentious and unsettled, the consequences are rippling through communities, threatening to diminish access to care and increase costs, with an uncertain impact on quality.

Eligibility expansion for low-income children and families under Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program has improved access to physician care for many, but problems continue to persist. This report provides a framework for states to use in assessing factors that promote or...

Eligibility expansion for low-income children and families under Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program has improved access to physician care for many, but problems continue to persist. This report provides a framework for states to use in assessing factors that...

Policymakers struggle with how to ensure adequate access to physician services in public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP. The authors synthesize research on this topic and provide a framework that policymakers can use to identify and measure barriers to access, determining where and why...

Retention is key in achieving SCHIP’s mission to reduce the number of uninsured children. This paper synthesizes the available evidence on disenrollment rates and reasons for disenrollment to produce estimates of SCHIP retention rates. The paper also summarizes the evidence on state SCHIP...

Compared with the hospital and health plan contract disputes and financial woes of two years ago, the Boston health care market has stabilized as hospitals and plans regained their financial footing, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.