On April 10, 2024, Hilltop Deputy Director Alice Middleton was one of three speakers at a session of the University of Baltimore-sponsored Rosenberg Dialogue Series, titled Fixing Unintended Pandemic Medicaid Policy Consequences: Lessons Learned and Insurance Coverage Implications for Recipients. In the session, speakers discussed the national context and state variations in qualifying disenrolled persons for coverage, Maryland Medicaid experiences with this policy complication for continuous enrollment, and generating data and information for evidence-based decisions.
As Mississippi is actively considering expanding its Medicaid program, Hilltop created this informational brief to capture key facts regarding Medicaid policy options as they apply to a potential Medicaid expansion in Mississippi.
As Mississippi is actively considering expanding its Medicaid program, Hilltop created this informational brief to capture key facts regarding Medicaid work requirements as they apply to a potential Medicaid expansion in Mississippi.
Medicaid enrollments typically reflect programmatic factors (such as eligibility thresholds or outreach efforts) and underlying economic factors (such as recessions). As Mississippi is actively considering expanding its Medicaid program, The Hilltop Institute assembled publicly available Medicaid enrollment trend data from another state (Louisiana) to show its expansion enrollment over time.
These findings were presented at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2023 meeting in Tampa, Florida. Part of a Center and Institute Departmentally-Engaged Research (CIDER) award, this is part of several studies focused on examining quality of care in Maryland nursing facilities.
Hilltop Principal Data Scientist Morgan Henderson, PhD, and Executive Director Cynthia Woodcock, MBA, presented Hilltop research to the Mississippi House Medicaid Committee. The research – a 2021 economic analysis of Medicaid expansion in Mississippi – was commissioned by the Center for Mississippi Health Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization.
In this article published in the American Journal of Managed Care, Hilltop Principal Data Scientist Morgan Henderson and Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim discuss their retrospective analysis of ten price transparency data files to establish empirical regularities about hospital-insurer contracting. Read the article online.
The Model Waiver provides services to individuals with medically complex needs and a chronic hospital or nursing facility level of care to be supported in their own homes or community‐based settings. Services covered under the waiver include private duty nursing (PDN) services provided by registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), and home health aides (HHAs). This infographic provides information for fiscal year (FY) 2017 to FY 2021.
The Medical Day Care (MDC) Services Waiver provides health, social, and related support services in a community‐based setting to functionally disabled adults aged 16 and older. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 to FY 2021.
The Family Supports Waiver (FSW) provides community-based services and supports to individuals aged 21 years or younger with developmental or intellectual disabilities. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 to FY 2021.