News & Bulletins
The Hilltop Institute periodically posts news items and issues electronic bulletins to disseminate information about Hilltop activities and publications. Below are the three most recent. Go to the News and Bulletin Archive, below, to view previous posts.
Bulletin: Introducing Hilltop’s New Executive Director, Alice Middleton
Please join us in welcoming Alice Middleton as Hilltop’s fourth executive director. Alice is a nationally recognized Medicaid subject matter expert and brings a wealth of experience to Hilltop. She joined Hilltop in 2017 as chief of staff, became deputy director in 2022, and has been serving as interim executive director since May 1, 2024, when Cynthia Woodcock retired.
Alice looks forward to continuing to lead the expert staff at Hilltop in this new role. She is eager to work closely with the Maryland Department of Health and other state agencies to navigate upcoming federal changes and identify new opportunities for innovative health policy and program evaluation. As Hilltop recently joined UMBC’s Division of Research and Creative Achievement, Alice is excited to strengthen collaborations with university faculty and leverage academic partnerships to enhance Hilltop’s research capabilities and impact.
05/30/2025
Bulletin: Second Hilltop Researcher Awarded UMBC CIDER Grant
Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, PhD, is one of five awardees of UMBC’s Center and Institute Departmentally Engaged Research (CIDER) grants this year. Dr. Henderson will partner with Dr. Jun Chu, Assistant Professor of Public Health in UMBC’s Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health to improve our understanding of the use of Z codes in the Maryland Medicaid population.
05/15/2025
Bulletin: Hilltop Research on Medicaid Provider Taxes featured in the New York Times Again
A New York Times article released today titled “The Biggest Medicaid Cut Left for House Republicans Would Hit Red States Hardest” features a follow-up to Hilltop’s analysis of the potential impact of eliminating the 6% Medicaid provider tax safe harbor threshold. This is a follow-up story to earlier coverage, and includes the impact of Managed Care Organization (MCO) taxes, in addition to hospital and nursing facility taxes. Today’s piece compares the distributional impacts of eliminating provider taxes with another proposed Medicaid reform.
05/09/2025