Offers guidance to states on Section 4106 of the Affordable Care Act, establishes a one percentage point increase in the federal medical assistance percentage, applied to expenditures for vaccines and preventive services to states that cover a full list of specified preventive services and vaccines without cost-sharing.
Used to collect data from Rhode Island’s health plans on: (1) the implementation of a regulation requiring health insurers to provide smoking cessation benefits, and (2) the details of the health plan products offered, cessation benefit offered, and member utilization for the prior year.
Outlines specific measures that assess the impact of their communications campaign, specifically around the uptake of counseling and coverage benefits as well as the use of tobacco in the state.
Shares state-by-state statistics on antibiotic resistance, healthcare-associated infections, outpatient antibiotic use, and inpatient antibiotic stewardship.
Includes Missouri’s approved state plan amendment that added asthma education and assessments to the state plan.