Ohio Health Value Review
August 2025
The Ohio Health Value Review is a quarterly electronic update from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio designed to provide evidence-informed resources and highlight opportunities for sectors to work together to improve health value in our state. If you have questions about the newsletter or have suggested tools or resources you would like to see included in future editions, please contact Nick Wiselogel, HPIO’s Vice President of Strategic Communications.
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Over the past decade, there have been major policy changes to improve access to care, including Ohio’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility in 2014, which contributed to Ohio’s uninsured rate dropping by half from 2010 to 2022, as illustrated below.
In HPIO’s 2024 Health Value Dashboard, Ohio ranked 16th lowest uninsured rate compared to other states and D.C.
As part of HPIO’s recently completed 2025 Ohio Medicaid Expansion Study, the Institute examined the expansion’s impact on health insurance coverage and cost. Data included in the brief shows that if expansion was eliminated, the uninsured rate could increase by 80% in 2026. Certain groups of Ohioans, including Ohioans with a high school education or less, would be more likely to become uninsured.
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Health value resources
The resources below, organized by the domains in HPIO’s Health Value Dashboard, can be used to help improve health value in Ohio.
Population health and healthcare spending
- Pain in the Nation 2025: The Epidemics of Alcohol, Drug, and Suicide Deaths –– Trust for America’s Health
- National Health Expenditure Projections, 2024–33: Despite Insurance Coverage Declines, Health To Grow As Share Of GDP –– Health Affairs
- Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: All You Need to Know –– Commonwealth Fund
- Lifestyle interventions can save over $500 million in healthcare spending –– Nature Aging
- Mental Health Data Channel –– CDC
Social and economic environment
- Ohio Child Mental Health Project: Factors contributing to child and youth mental health struggles –– HPIO
- The $2.8 trillion opportunity: How better health for all can drive US economic growth – Deloitte
Physical environment
- Protecting Health and Equity in the Face of Climate Change –– Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- States Continue to Address PFAS in U.S. Food and Water Supply –– Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- Climate Change and the Health of Socially Vulnerable People –– U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Access to care
- 2025 Ohio Medicaid Expansion Study –– HPIO
- Medicaid, CHIP, and Affordable Care Act Marketplace Cuts and Other Health Provisions in the Budget Reconciliation Law, Explained –– Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Children and Families
- What the ACA Marketplaces Do for Your State –– Commonwealth Fund
- How State Budget Shortfalls Could Put Medicaid Dental Coverage at Risk –– Commonwealth Fund
Healthcare system
- 2025 Scorecard on State Health System Performance –– Commonwealth Fund
- Rural Hospital Closures Led To Increased Prices At Nearby ‘Surviving’ Hospitals, 2012–22 –– Health Affairs
Public health and prevention
- Medicaid Meets Public Health: A Blueprint for Collaboration –– National Association of Medicaid Directors
- Public Health Initiatives Deliver Big Returns on Investment –– Pew Charitable Trust
Health equity
- Physician Workforce Diversity by Race and Ethnicity –– KFF
- CMS’s Transforming Maternal Health Model: A Roadmap For States –– Health Affairs
- What to Know About the Older Americans Act and the Services it Provides to Older Adults –– KFF
