New guides and case studies from Manatt Health and Bailit Health offer insight into how to use public data sources to examine the financial condition of hospitals, as well as identify opportunities to reduce health care spending growth buff.ly/3VPnMSZ CC Peterson Center on Healthcare

Health Care Cost Growth Targets bring together all stakeholders to agree upon a common goal for spending growth. This creates a pathway to more affordable health care for families, employers, and state governments. Learn more.

A new publication entitled 'A Health Equity Data and Accountability Infrastructure for Massachusetts' co-authored with MassHealth for State Health and Value Strategies with shvs.org/a-health-equit… Heather Howard Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A new publication entitled 'What´s New in State Approaches to Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Medicaid Managed Care' authored for State Health and Value Strategies Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dan Meuse Heather Howard bit.ly/2023-1229-shvs… #medicaid #healthcare

Drug spending is rising at an unaffordable rate even when rebates are taken into account, finds a new Health analysis of spending data in CT, RI, and OR from Bailit Health buff.ly/3RPW0n5 CC Peterson Center on Healthcare

A new blog post entitled 'The Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Spending in Three States: A Health Care Cost Driver Analysis' authored for the Milbank Memorial Fund lnkd.in/e7pn9d6P Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly #healthcare #COVID19

Steep increases in health care costs in the commercial health market—the portion of the market not including Medicare and Medicaid—are the focus of this episode.

Analyst Alyssa Vangeli explains what's driving the increases in this #NCSLpodcasts episode: bit.ly/3QNtHVQ

Data+analysis=evidence to improve health care affordability. A new collection of resources offers guidance to states on how to leverage publicly available data sources on health care cost and affordability. buff.ly/3QEUcfS

Turn data into evidence to improve health care affordability. Check out the customizable Making the Case for State Health Care Affordability Sample Slides from Peterson Center on Healthcare, Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly, and Manatt Health. buff.ly/3tU6Y19

A new publication entitled 'How Medicaid Agencies Can Leverage Multi-Payer Aligned Measure Sets'. Authored for State Health and Value Strategies. bit.ly/2023-1004-shvs… Heather Howard Dan Meuse Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Bailit Health is excited to announce the new State Affordability Technical Assistance Program for state agencies supported by Commonwealth Fund. For info on program eligibility and instructions for how to apply: bit.ly/state-affordab…

A new publication entitled 'Medicaid Managed Care Strategies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Mental Healthcare for Adults' authored for State Health and Value Strategies Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Heather Howard Dan Meuse bit.ly/2023-0721-shvs…

Webinar - 7/27, at 1:00 p.m. ET 'Medicaid Managed Care Strategies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Mental Healthcare for Adults.' Facilitated by Bailit Health and sponsored by State Health and Value Strategies Dan Meuse Heather Howard bit.ly/2023-0727-shvs…

In a Health Affairs Forefront article, Bailit Health discusses several recently-released reports on state healthcare spending for 2020–21, revealing that most of those states exceeded their spending growth targets.
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States Setting Health Care Spending Growth Targets Experienced Accelerated Growth in 2021 via Health Affairs buff.ly/3NwirKk CC Peterson Center on Healthcare Bailit Health

6/29 at 12 PM, join Managing Director, January Angeles as she presents “State Health Care Spending Growth Targets: 2021 Results and Next Steps' for the Health Affairs Lunch and Learn #webinar bit.ly/2023-0629-bail… Health Affairs #healthcare

Webinar - June 29, 2023, at 2 PM EST. Bailit Health presents 'Highlights of the State Health Equity Measure Set: Measures to Assess and Improve Equity.' for State Health and Value Strategies lnkd.in/e7NieGc3 (Registration Required) #healthequity #MeasureSets

A new publication entitled “Measuring Health Equity: A State Measure Set to Assess and Improve Equity” authored for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bit.ly/shvs-measuring… Dan Meuse Heather Howard #HealthEquity #MeasureSet

Updated Compendium of Medicaid Managed Care Contracting Strategies to Promote Health Equity and a companion expert perspective – “What's New in State Approaches to Promoting Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care.” bit.ly/2023-0407-SHVS… Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Upcoming SHVS Webinar: Development of Statewide Health Equity Data Standards in Massachusetts, Thursday, March 23, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. EST bit.ly/3JXSsLB Robert Wood Johnson Foundation