Mississippi

Ranking Highlights

2020 RankChange from Baseline
Overall Ranking510
Access and Affordability50-1
Prevention and Treatment50-5
Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost50+1
Healthy Lives500
Disparity41+9
Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018)No

Demographics

MississippiAverage
Total Population2,920,292322,324,172
Median Household Income$46,906$67,877
Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL)41%30%
% White Race, Non-Hispanic57%60%
% Black Race, Non-Hispanic38%12%
% Other Race, Non-Hispanic3%9%
% Hispanic Ethnicity3%18%
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Highlights

Top Ranked Indicators

  • Employer-sponsored insurance spending per enrollee
  • Home health patients without improved mobility
  • Alcohol deaths

Bottom Ranked Indicators

  • Adults without a dental visit
  • Nursing home residents with a hospital admission
  • Mortality amenable to health care

Most Improved Indicators

  • Home health patients without improved mobility
  • Colorectal cancer deaths
  • Nursing home residents with an antipsychotic medication

Indicators That Worsened the Most

  • Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
  • Children without a medical home
  • Hospital 30-day mortality

Comparison with the U.S. Average

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Estimated Gains Mississippi Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States

Top State in the U.S.Top State in the Southeast regionGains for Mississippi
285,951202,659more adults and children would be insured
243,893110,860fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost
145,17479,186more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings
7,0495,422more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines
129,60376,245fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions
2,4541,741fewer 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).