State Health Policy

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in the use of telehealth in the United States,1 aided in no small part by a flurry of temporary… More

Demand for behavioral health services in the United States far outpaced supply before the coronavirus pandemic, but the past several years have… More

Context: Access to integrated care for those with co-occurring mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUDs) has been limited because of an… More

Managed care is how Medicaid agencies principally furnish maternity care. For this reason, the contracts that Medicaid agencies enter into with managed care organizations have attracted strong interest as a means of improving maternal health access, quality, and equity. However, limited research has documented the extent to which states use these agreements to set binding expectations across the maternal health continuum and how states approach the task of maternal health contracting. More

There is growing recognition that the caustic scientific debates about the impact of masks, social distancing, and remote schooling during the… More

A look at recent policy developments that bear on private equity in health care, and their potential impacts on this growing form of commercial activity in health care markets. More

Ten ways to accelerate research on the role that the seismic shifts in states’ policy contexts may have played in the troubling trends and growing disparities in Americans’ health. More

Study results show that a set of internal state factors are important predictors of firearm law adoption, but the actions of neighboring states may be just as important. More

This perspective highlights the tectonic changes in US states’ policy contexts in recent decades and their profound impact on population health. More

The 2022 primary and general midterm elections revealed both the power and limitations of direct democracy strategies for securing abortion and other reproductive rights at the state level. More