Health Matters: September 2025

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How PolicyMap Supports Market and Health Needs Assessments

Market and health needs assessments are essential for identifying gaps in care, addressing disparities, and planning for long-term sustainability. Learn how PolicyMap makes this process faster, more accurate, and easier to communicate by bringing trusted, location-based data into one simple platform.

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Capital Link

Capital Link is a national organization that helps Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Primary Care Associations (PCAs) strengthen sustainability, plan for growth, and access capital. By leveraging PolicyMap, Capital Link enhances its Market Assessment Process report and ability to support health centers in making data-driven decisions regarding sustainability and growth, staffing, and service offerings.

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PolicyMap is Launching a Salesforce Plugin!

Embed PolicyMap’s neighborhood-level data directly into your Salesforce workflow to qualify leads and determine eligibility–without switching platforms.

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Updated Data

*New Data* Urban Institute Medical Debt Estimates has been added to PolicyMap. It includes estimated medical debt and median medical debt, with breakdowns by key demographics.

*New Data* Pharmacy location data from Data Axle has been updated to 2025. This update includes a new filter, “Store Status”, that can be used to identify pharmacies that closed between August 2024 and May 2025.

*New Data* displaying Medicare-Accepting Provider locations from CMS, including the ability to filter to provider specialty, has been added to PolicyMap.

Annual Flu data from the CDC has been updated to the 2024-2025 season.

Chronic Health Conditions data for Medicare Beneficiaries from CMS has been updated to 2023.

The CMS Opioid Claims data has been updated through 2023. Update is an entire data refresh for both Medicaid and Medicare.

Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) data from HRSA has been updated to 2025.

Medically Underserved Areas (MUA) data from HRSA has been updated to 2025.

We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website, X (formerly known as Twitter) and BlueSky.

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Upcoming Events

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NCQA Health Innovation Summit
October 13 – 15, 2025
San Diego, CA

PolicyMap is excited to join the 2025 NCQA Health Innovation Summit! Stop by booth #518 to meet the PolicyMap team and learn how geospatial data can help address health disparities and improve care for vulnerable populations. We hope to see you there. Register here!