HPIO research and analysis informs policymakers on options to manage overall expenditure growth, reduce unnecessary spending and ensure access to affordable, high-quality care.
HPIO’s seventh edition of the Health Value Dashboard, a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value.
HPIO’s seventh edition of the Health Value Dashboard, a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value.
Policy explainer: Federal health policy impact on Ohio
HR 1, the federal reconciliation bill, includes provisions that will have major impacts on Medicaid financing in Ohio. Policymakers will need to make important decisions to mitigate funding cuts.
Policy explainer: Federal health policy impact on Ohio
On Dec. 29, 2025, CMS announced total first-year Rural Health Transformation Program awards. According to HPIO’s analysis, Ohio was awarded the 46th-most funding per rural resident.
Healthcare access and affordability in Ohio series
This policy explainer details Medicaid work requirements recently established by federal law and how they compare to work requirements in a 1115 waiver proposal submitted by Ohio policymakers
Healthcare access and affordability in Ohio series
In light of coming policy changes, this brief presents current data on the cost of basic needs for working Ohioans, access to adequate health insurance and the cost of health care for Ohio families.
2025 OHIO MEDICAID EXPANSION STUDY
This brief analyzes the likely state budget effects of eliminating Medicaid expansion.
2024 Health Value Dashboard data brief
This brief explores the experiences and environments that lead to deaths among working-age Ohioans (ages 15-64) and provides a set of policies to drive improvement.
HPIO’s sixth edition of the Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value.
Unlocking Ohio’s economic potential:
This analysis from HPIO looks at the economic potential associated with eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in Ohio, finding that...
Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:
For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...
This publication provides an overview of the Medicaid program in Ohio, including information on Medicaid eligibility, covered services, delivery systems,...
HPIO’s fifth edition of the Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value Download...
Health Value Dashboard fact sheet:
Clean air and water, safe places to walk outside and access to healthy food are examples of conditions in the...
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward health value
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress towards health value.
More than a century of research has found strong connections between income and health.
The HPIO Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress towards health value.
The HPIO Health Value Dashboard™, the first-of-its-kind combined state ranking of health outcomes and healthcare costs, shows that Ohio’s health value rank is 47.
HPIO has developed a series of publications to explore health care affordability challenges facing Ohioans.
HPIO analysis of recent federal policy changes and details about how policymakers in the state will need to account for these developments
Meeting the moment: Using data for policy progress
Launching the 2026 Health Value Dashboard, a tool that measures Ohio’s performance compared to other states.
Prioritizing what works: A focus on policies with the greatest return on investment
September 25, 2026
Millions in Medicaid benefits were paid out for Ohioans who were ineligible for them, or even dead, according to a new interim report from the Ohio Auditor of State's Office
September 25, 2026
Hospitals are urging the Trump administration to implement Medicaid provider taxes as outlined in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act “with the least possible disruption"
September 11, 2026
Data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that the percentage of outpatient healthcare facilities in Ohio that are independently owned is lower than in all but five states
