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West Virginia Becomes Second State to Authorize Insurance Exchange
April 7, 2011: West Virginia became the second state to authorize the establishment of an insurance exchange on April 4, 2011, when Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed legislation...
NAIC Issues Three White Papers on Exchanges: Adverse Selection Draft Open for Comment
March 30, 2011: The Exchanges Subgroup of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)’s Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee has issued three draft...
Block Grants for Medicaid: What’s the Story?
March 21, 2011:  Medicaid block grants have been in the news a lot lately, with a number of governors asking the federal government to switch Medicaid funding from its...
ACA Note: States Can Bypass ACA's MOE Provisions as 1115 Waivers Expire
March 11, 2011: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in late Feburary that Arizona could drop more than 250,000 people from its Medicaid program without...
ACA Note: Defining “Small Employer” under the Affordable Care Act
March 9, 2011:  Section 1304 of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) defines a “small employer” as an employer with anywhere from one to 100 employees (...
SHARE Brief: The Target Efficiency of Wisconsin's ACCESS Portal
February 22, 2011:  Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute have released additional findings from their SHARE-funded study of the online...
Minnesota Population Center: Family Interrelationship Variables for IHIS Data Under Development
February 21, 2011: Staff from the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) presented to SHADAC last week about their work with family interrelationship variables, which are recoded...
Florida Judge Rules Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional
February 1, 2011: A U.S. District Court judge in Florida has ruled that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.  This ruling goes further than a December 2010...
RWJF Highlights SHARE Special Issue of HSR
January 21, 2011:  The February 2011 special issue of Health Services Research is now featured among the publications and research on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (...
Enrollment Doubles in Federal High-Risk Pool
January 19, 2011: The Health and Human Services Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCIIO) reported yesterday that enrollment in the federal high-risk...
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