KEY POINTSCDC reported a provisional 2025 age-adjusted death rate of 689.2 deaths per 100,000 population, the lowest ever reported death rate and 4.6% below the final 2024 rate of 722.1 deaths per 100,000 population.CDC notes that the published 2024
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Reports
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The U.S. Age-Adjusted Death Rate Reached a Record Low in 2025: What Drove the Decline?
ASPE Issue Brief
Financing Medicaid Through Provider Taxes on Hospitals: Spillover Effects on Employment-Based Coverage Premiums
KEY POINTSThe average state provider tax law, which typically taxed a hospital up to 3.5 percent of net patient revenue, resulted in an increase in ESI premiums of 1.5-1.7 percent, plus any spillover effect on interstate markets for provider resources.
ASPE Data Point
Health and Economic Benefits Associated with Increased Kidney Transplantation Following the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative in 2019
KEY POINTSAnnual growth in the number of kidney transplants began to accelerate in 2019.
Strategic Plan
Kidney Care National Plan
The Kidney Care National Plan highlights the continued commitment of HHS to advance kidney care and identifies opportunities for policy reform and improvement across the Department’s efforts. The relative lack of innovation in kidney care is the structural outcome of anti-competitive and burdensome actions that have maintained the national crisis of kidney disease and kidney failure.
ASPE Issue Brief
Mission vs. Margin: Misaligned Incentives in the 340B Drug Pricing Program
Efforts by CMS to reform the 340B Drug Pricing Program aim to decrease financial incentives that place revenue over patients' health outcomes and access to care.
Report
Evidence-Based Measures for Chronic Disease Outcomes: A Review of Available Measures for Emergent HIV Therapies
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Evidence-Based Measures for Chronic Disease Outcomes: A Review of Available Measures for Emergent Sickle Cell Disease Therapies
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ASPE Issue Brief, Report
Aligning Initiatives to End the HIV Epidemic in the United States
KEY POINTSThe Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) provides critical services to low-income peo
Report
An Overview of State-Directed Payments and Medicaid Provider Taxes: History and Potential Effects of the Working Families Tax Cut Legislation on Health Care Costs
Health care provider taxes and state-directed payment policies in the Working Families and Tax Cut legislation are expected to reduce non-Medicaid prices by up to 3.5 percent in markets with provider taxes and reduce spending on Medicaid, commercial and Medicare coverage.
Report
Framework for a Public Repository of Artificial Intelligence Training Datasets Using EHR Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research & A Pediatric ADHD Patient-Centered Outcomes Annotation Schema
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, particularly those that use natural language processing (NLP), are becoming increasingly prominent in healthcare delivery. For these systems to operate safely and reliably in clinical settings, they require high-quality training datasets drawn from multiple sources, including electronic health record (EHR) data, that closely reflect real-world conditions.