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The Medicaid Unwinding: Expectations and Estimations

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Written by Sarah Scarborough

The pandemic tested Medicaid and health departments across the nation. Health systems were overwhelmed with a large influx of patients and demand for healthcare coverage. Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)[1] in response to this outcry which ensured patients could assess healthcare services during the COVID-19 health emergency period (PHE) as needed.[2] With the emergency period over, Congress is ending continuous enrollment through the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA).[3] States must … Read more...

Economic Impact Of Expanded Health Insurance Coverage For Mississippians Below 138% Of The Federal Poverty Level

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Introduction

The Center for Mississippi Health Policy (Center) is a non-partisan, nonprofit research group with the purpose of providing research and data to inform the planning, decision-making, and operations of health policy in Mississippi. Since the option for states to expand Medicaid eligibility presented itself in 2014, a major question for Mississippi state legislators and health professionals has been the total cost of expansion to the state. While the state faces many obstacles in producing better health outcomes and a… Read more...

Drug Overdose Deaths in Mississippi

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Written by Larry L. Smith, Ph. D.

The National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Vital Statistics Rapid Release of Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts at the US and State level. Based on data available for analysis on November 7, 2021 the percent change in the United States from April 2021 to April 2021 was +27.2% (reported data), and predicted data was +28.5%. The data for Mississippi had a predicted case change … Read more...

Mississippi Adult Health Coverage Profile 2019 Data

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Researchers from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota compiled Mississippi data from the 2019 United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) at the request of the Center for Mississippi Health Policy. The ACS asks a representative sample of households about their health insurance
coverage. This chartbook summarizes the responses provided by non-elderly (19 through 64 years of age) Mississippi adults. Data found at Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)(https://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml).

This chartbook also … Read more...