Vice President, KFF and Director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Robin Rudowitz is the Vice President of KFF and Director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. With a focus on Medicaid policy and healthcare access, Robin writes articles that provide insights and analysis on the unwinding of Medicaid policies, enrollment trends, spending growth, and consumer perspectives. Her work aims to inform policymakers, researchers, and the public about the impact of Medicaid changes on individuals and the healthcare system.
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By: Robin Rudowitz, Clea Bell, Alice Burns, Elizabeth Williams
This issue brief describes recent trends in the number of Medicaid outpatient prescriptions and the spending on those drugs and examines how the pandemic and pandemic-era policies may have impacted those trends.
By: Robin Rudowitz, Tricia Neuman, Alice Burns
On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris has proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care. If enacted, this would be the first major expansion of Medicare since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 that added a prescription drug benefit to the program.
By: Robin Rudowitz, Alice Burns, Tricia Neuman
On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care.
By: Elizabeth Hinton, Elizabeth Williams, Anna Mudumala, Robin Rudowitz
This brief analyzes Medicaid enrollment and spending trends for FY 2024 and FY 2025, based on data provided by state Medicaid directors as part of the 24th annual survey of Medicaid directors.
By: Caprice Knapp, Elizabeth Hinton, Jada Raphael, Aimee Lashbrook, Anna Mudumala, Kathleen Gifford, Elizabeth Williams, Robin Rudowitz
This annual Medicaid budget survey report highlights certain policies in place in state Medicaid programs in state fiscal year (FY) 2024 and policy changes implemented or planned for FY 2025.
By: Akash Pillai, Samantha Artiga, Drishti Pillai, Robin Rudowitz
The U.S territories – American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.
By: Robin Rudowitz, Priya Chidambaram, Alice Burns, Abby Wolk, Gary Claxton
This analysis uses the 2022 American Community Survey to provide an overview of demographic characteristics, wages, and health insurance coverage of direct care workers, which include home health aides, personal care aides, nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and registered nurses (RNs). his analysis looks both broadly at the direct care workforce as well as examines differences across job classifications and settings of work.
GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) drugs have been used as a treatment for type 2 diabetes for over a decade, but newer forms of these drugs have gained
By: Samantha Artiga, Akash Pillai, Latoya Hill, Robin Rudowitz, Amaya Diana
In October 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the first ever Section 1115 waiver demonstration amendments that would allow Medicaid and CHIP coverage of traditional health care practices for American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) people in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Oregon. This Waiver Watch reviews disparities in health and health care for AIAN people and summarizes the key features of the approved waivers.
By: Clea Bell, Robin Rudowitz, Jennifer Tolbert
With President-elect Trump returning to the White House and Republicans controlling Congress, significant changes to the Medicaid expansion are expected. This data note provides key facts on the Medicaid expansion, highlighting the financial and coverage impacts of any changes across states that voted for President-elect Trump and those that voted for Vice President Harris.
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