Community health workers play a vital role in bridging the gap between healthcare systems and underserved communities. A new Arkansas law establishes a statewide certification structure for community health workers and a pathway for them to receive reimbursement for their services from Medicaid and private insurers, with implementation pending. This explainer provides an overview of community health workers in Arkansas.
This explainer provides an overview of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), examining its history, participation rates, purchasing patterns, program waivers, and how the federal budget reconciliation bill signed into law in July 2025 may affect the program and its role in addressing food insecurity and nutritional needs in Arkansas.
Medicare Advantage is an optional component of Medicare that allows beneficiaries to receive healthcare benefits from private insurance plans instead of the federal government. This dashboard shows how enrollment in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare has changed in Arkansas from 2013 through 2025.
Our new interactive dashboard displays publicly available data on Arkansas consumers’ plan selections and premiums on the health insurance marketplace, by county and statewide, for the open enrollment periods of 2020 through 2026.
Medicare is the single largest payer in the U.S. healthcare system, making it a critical source of revenue for hospitals. This fact sheet examines adjustments to Medicare’s basic payment models that seek to account for factors not fully captured in those models.
