Kentucky
Ranking Highlights
| 2019 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 40 | +4 |
| Access and Affordability | 23 | +10 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 20 | +5 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 48 | -2 |
| Healthy Lives | 49 | -4 |
| Disparity | 40 | +1 |
| Medicaid Expansion | Yes |
Demographics
| Kentucky | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 4,372,996 | 320,842,721 |
| Median Household Income | $51,571 | $65,727 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 37% | 31% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 85% | 61% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 8% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 4% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicithy | 4% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Uninsured adults
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children who are overweight or obese
- Adults who report fair or poor health
- Adults who smoke
Most Improved Indicators
- Uninsured adults
- Adults who went without care because of cost
- Home health patients without improved mobility
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Drug poisoning deaths
- Hospital 30-day mortality
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18-64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Kentucky Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Southeast region | Gains for Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| 108,982 | 10,577 | more adults and children, beyond those who already gained coverage through the ACA, would be insured |
| 136,534 | 0 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 174,435 | 96,909 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 7,851 | 2,355 | more children (ages 19-35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 95,811 | 20,232 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 2,211 | 1,165 | 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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