ASPE Issue Brief

During the pandemic period, telehealth utilization increased among both urban and rural enrollees in Medicaid, with urban enrollees sustaining greater gains in telehealth utilization at the end of 2021. This Issue Brief is part of a series of ASPE Issue Briefs examining changes in Medicaid utilization of services delivered via telehealth by enrollee and provider characteristics.

In this Report, we matched a sample of Part D drugs and biological products that had price changes between January 2011 and October 2023 to FDA’s January 2023 list of drug shortages database. Then we analyzed price changes that occurred before and after the shortage, overall and by select drug characteristics of interest.

In this Report, we matched a sample of Part B drugs and biological products that had price changes between January 2011 and October 2023 with the FDA’s January 2023 list of drug shortages database. Then we analyzed price changes that occurred before and after the shortage, overall and by select drug characteristics of interest.

This study examined the extent therapist practices and nursing homes adopted telehealth services for physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and speech-language pathology (SLP); explored the major challenges and facilitators in adopting telerehabilitation services, and whether these services were effective in addressing patient care and staffing needs during the public health emergenc

Recruiting and retaining a talented workforce requires employers to implement supports for family caregivers who are balancing the dual roles of working and caregiving.

This issue brief examines trends related to market size measured via sales revenues and volume of prescription drug use between the U.S. and other countries between 2017 and 2023. Specifically, we compare the U.S. to the rest of the world (excluding the U.S.) and the other OECD countries (excluding the U.S.).

In 2020, Congress designated the new 988 dialing code to be operated through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was established to improve access to immediate support to meet the behavioral health crisis needs in the United States.

This brief summarizes findings from a research project that examined access to and use of tele-mental health services among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and behavioral health consumer and provider perceptions of the optimal balance of telehealth and in-person services for people with SMI and SED.

People experiencing homelessness often have complex health care and social service needs which present significant care challenges to hospitals, such as longer lengths of stays, higher readmission rates, and complicated chronic illnesses.

State Medicaid programs have the option to cover supported employment services, but use of these services by the Medicaid population has not been widely studied.