Idaho
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 21 | +1 |
| Access and Affordability | 45 | -6 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 30 | +8 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 5 | -2 |
| Healthy Lives | 16 | -1 |
| Disparity | 8 | +7 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | No |
Demographics
| Idaho | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 1,734,232 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $59,773 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 34% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 82% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 1% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 13% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Home health patients with a hospital admission
- Skilled nursing facility patients with a hospital readmission
- Hospital 30-day readmission rate age 65 and older
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Suicide deaths
- High out-of-pocket medical spending
- Adults without all recommended cancer screenings
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Adults with inappropriate lower back imaging
- Children without a medical home
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Hospital 30-day readmission rate ages 18–64
- Hospital 30-day mortality
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Idaho Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Rocky Mountain region | Gains for Idaho |
|---|---|---|
| 146,696 | 68,631 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 103,282 | 64,551 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 112,677 | 37,559 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 4,245 | 1,306 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 30,020 | 24,526 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 192 | 70 | fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care |
Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).
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