- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(301) 427-1364
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access. Information from AHRQ’s research helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
A policy organization that conducts research and analysis on proposed budget and tax policies, with a focus on the needs of low-income families and individuals, including federal Medicaid policy.
- Center for Health Care Strategies
(609) 895-8101
The Center for Health Care Strategies promotes high quality health care services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. CHCS directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Medicaid Managed Care initiative.
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(877) 267-2323
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is the federal agency that runs Medicaid and provides guidelines and funding to state programs. This site contains information for professionals, state governments, and consumers.
- Families USA
(202) 628-3030
Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. This website contains a section devoted to Medicaid and children’s health and how government decisions affect programming.
- Kaiser Family Foundation
(650) 854-9400
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. The site provides information and analysis on health care coverage and access for the low-income population, with a special focus on Medicaid's role and coverage of the uninsured.
- National Association of State Budget Officers
The professional organization for all state budget officers of the fifty states
and U.S. territories. NASBO publishes useful information and analyses of state
budgets, including information about state Medicaid programs.
- National Association of Medicaid Directors
(202) 682-0100
The National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD) is a bipartisan, professional, nonprofit organization of representatives of state Medicaid agencies (including the District of Columbia and the territories). The primary purposes of NASMDF are: to serve as a focal point of communication between the states and the federal government and to provide an information network among the states on issues pertinent to the Medicaid program.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(888) 631-9989
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is a philanthropy devoted to health and healthcare in the United States. Access to care and quality of care are two of their major program areas including research and programs on access to care for low-income individuals.
- The Urban Institute
(202) 833-7200
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. It provides information and analysis to public and private decision makers to help them address these challenges and strives to raise citizen understanding of the issues and tradeoffs in policy making. The Health Policy Center studies state Medicaid reforms, among a large number of topics.