Below is a listing of select Hilltop publications and presentations. You can search by type, topic, date, and/or title. The search function searches for key words in both the title and the publication summary. Click on the publication’s title below to go to its summary.
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Hilltop Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, with Tatiane Santos, Jeanmarie Perrone, Berkeley Franz, and Cory E. Cronin, co-authored this article published in the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. They examined whether not-for-profit hospitals that prioritize opioid use disorder (OUD) in community benefit (CB) planning are more likely to comply with price reporting for medications commonly prescribed for OUD treatment (OUD medications) and offer lower self-pay prices for OUD medications. Overall, they found limited evidence that hospitals identifying OUD as a community health priority translated these stated priorities into pricing practices that may improve affordability for uninsured and underinsured patients.
H.R. 1 is poised to make significant changes to Medicaid eligibility for individuals in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion group, and it is crucial for states to understand how their ACA expansion populations may be affected. To that end, Hilltop researchers posted a short weekly series on LinkedIn using American Community Survey (ACS) data to take a closer look at adults who fall into the “ACA-like” Medicaid group. This In Brief document summarizes their findings.
Principal Policy Analyst Christine Gill, PhD, presented this poster at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held May 30–June 2 in Seattle.
Principal Policy Analyst Christine Gill, PhD, presented this poster at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held May 30–June 2 in Seattle.
Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, ScM, presented this poster at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held May 30–June 2 in Seattle.
Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, ScM, participated on a panel and gave this presentation at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held May 30–June 2 in Seattle.
This chart book reports the characteristics, utilization, and spending of Maryland Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports. This includes nursing facility residents in Maryland Medicaid-funded nursing homes from fiscal year (FY) 2020 through FY 2024.
This chart book describes demographic characteristics, spending patterns, and health complexity of Maryland dual eligible individuals (people simultaneously enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid) who received services in calendar year (CY) 2019 through CY 2023.
Hilltop’s Chief Technology and Compliance Officer James Clavin, PhD, with UMBC co-authors Satyasai Mandlem and Karuna Joshi, analyze the current state of the art in electronic data interchange and provide a design-oriented technical brief of how blockchain and large language models could address improper payments. Their research was published in Digital Government: Research and Practice.
Hilltop’s Chief Technology and Compliance Officer James Clavin, PhD, with UMBC co-authors Satyasai Mandlem and Karuna Joshi, address the need for timely compliance evaluation of substance abuse and mental health claims data exchanged between organizations. They present their novel methodology of integrating blockchain technology with semantic reasoners, as well as their results of sharing sensitive Part 2 data in this article published in Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice.