Alabama sees poor ranking on state Medicare scorecard

A report released by the Commonwealth Fund on Thursday placed Alabama’s Medicare performance among the ten worst states nationwide.

The healthcare research nonprofit’s State Scorecard on Medicare Performance ranks the quality and availability of Medicare care across states and D.C. based on 31 health system performance indicators, constructed from data gathered from 2023 to 2025 by public agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

States’ performance indicators for the federally administered program were organized into four performance domains: access to care, quality of care, affordability and population health.

Vermont, Utah and Minnesota topped the organization’s ranking for strongest Medicare performance across the four categories.

Meanwhile, Alabama ranked 4