Indiana
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 38 | +2 |
| Access and Affordability | 24 | +8 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 40 | +8 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 41 | -2 |
| Healthy Lives | 43 | 0 |
| Disparity | 31 | -2 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| Indiana | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 6,594,067 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $60,786 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 31% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 79% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 9% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 7% | 18% |
Indiana
Health System Performance
Indicator Performance
- Improved: 15
- Little or No Change: 19
- Worsened: 9
Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Hospitals with lower-than-average patient experience ratings
- Employee insurance costs as a share of median income
- High out-of-pocket medical spending
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children who are overweight or obese
- Primary care spending as share of total, ages 18–64
- Children without all recommended vaccines
Most Improved Indicators
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Hospital 30-day mortality
- Adults without all recommended vaccines
- Children without a medical home
Comparison with the U.S. Average
Overall Rank
Access and Affordability
Prevention and Treatment
Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost
Healthy Lives
Disparity
Estimated Gains Indiana Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Great Lakes region | Gains for Indiana |
|---|---|---|
| 373,916 | 183,951 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 251,636 | 100,654 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 294,464 | 176,679 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 24,230 | 18,172 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 270,661 | 40,535 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 2,484 | 1,575 | 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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