Missouri
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 48 | -7 |
| Access and Affordability | 34 | -5 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 38 | +3 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 46 | -1 |
| Healthy Lives | 44 | -5 |
| Disparity | 50 | -2 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | No |
Demographics
| Missouri | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 6,020,467 | 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 | 11% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 4% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Adults with any mental illness who did not receive treatment
- Adults with inappropriate lower back imaging
- Employer-sponsored insurance spending per enrollee
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children who are overweight or obese
- Potentially avoidable emergency department visits ages 18–64
- Public health funding
Most Improved Indicators
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Nursing home residents with an antipsychotic medication
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Children who are overweight or obese
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Potentially avoidable emergency department visits ages 18–64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Missouri Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Plains region | Gains for Missouri |
|---|---|---|
| 379,641 | 279,243 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 279,039 | 232,533 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 247,995 | 137,775 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 18,330 | 16,173 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 479,435 | 438,979 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 2,329 | 2,329 | 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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