Nevada
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 49 | -2 |
| Access and Affordability | 44 | +5 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 51 | 0 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 40 | -13 |
| Healthy Lives | 40 | +2 |
| Disparity | 36 | -4 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| Nevada | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 2,998,413 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $60,786 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 32% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 48% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 9% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 14% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 29% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Adults with inappropriate lower back imaging
- Potentially avoidable emergency department visits age 65 and older
- Employer-sponsored insurance spending per enrollee
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Public health funding
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
Most Improved Indicators
- Public health funding
- Children without a medical home
- Colorectal cancer deaths
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Nevada Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the West region | Gains for Nevada |
|---|---|---|
| 248,870 | 198,381 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 184,879 | 184,879 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 164,816 | 151,081 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 10,933 | 4,373 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 169,947 | 169,947 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 1,216 | 969 | 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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