New Hampshire
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 11 | +5 |
| Access and Affordability | 8 | +2 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 5 | +4 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 26 | -13 |
| Healthy Lives | 14 | +9 |
| Disparity | 38 | +3 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| New Hampshire | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 1,339,533 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $84,087 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 20% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 90% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 1% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 4% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Children without a medical home
- Adults with any mental illness who did not receive treatment
- Children without a medical and dental preventive care visit
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Employer-sponsored insurance spending per enrollee
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
- Primary care spending as share of total, age 65 and older
Most Improved Indicators
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains New Hampshire Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the New England region | Gains for New Hampshire |
|---|---|---|
| 35,736 | 35,736 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 43,301 | 32,476 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 26,358 | 26,358 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 578 | 578 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 21,736 | 7,168 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 96 | 59 | 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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