News & Bulletins
The Hilltop Institute periodically posts news items and issues electronic bulletins to disseminate information about Hilltop activities and publications. Below are the three most recent. Go to the News and Bulletin Archive, below, to view previous posts.
Hilltop Featured in American Community Survey Post about COVID-19 Project
Analysists from The Hilltop Institute collaborated with faculty from UMBC, UMCP, and the City of Frederick’s Asian American Center on a project titled “Lifting All Voices: Community-Based Language Access and Health Literacy Skill Building in Frederick, Maryland, to Achieve Health Equity and COVID-19 Public Health Objectives.” Funded through the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the two-year project sought to develop, implement, and evaluate a targeted education program to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 information available to Frederick residents. Key findings from this project are featured in a recent post from the U.S Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
03/28/2025
Bulletin: New Article in Health Affairs Forefront Discusses Evidence from Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas
In a new article in the Health Affairs Forefront series, titled Reporting Requirements Matter (A Lot): Evidence from Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirements, Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Director of Health Reform Studies Laura Spicer, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton discuss their re-examination of 2018-2019 enrollment data from Arkansas Works, the state’s Medicaid work requirement program.
The authors hope that this result can be used by states to model the enrollment impacts of potential Medicaid work requirement policies.
03/03/2025
Bulletin: Hilltop Predictive Risk Scores Support Advanced Primary Care for Over 2 Million Marylanders
As of February 7, 2025, The Hilltop Institute at UMBC has expanded its predictive modeling portfolio to facilitate the delivery of advanced primary care for more than 2 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in Maryland via the Multi-Payer Reporting (MPR) Suite on Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP). This expansion marks a significant advance in the use of innovative data analytics to optimize primary care in Maryland and represents the state’s commitment to ensuring quality, high-value care for all.
02/07/2025